Quotes about Perspective

He uses the world as if he used it not, 1 Cor. 7. 31.

Everything has two handles,--one by which it may be borne another by which it cannot.

We have two ears and one mouth so we may listen more and talk the less.

Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.

Anyway, what do happiness and unhappiness mean? They depend so little on circumstances and so much more on what goes on inside us.

They (theological liberals) seemed to know what the answer was supposed to be and weren't much concerned with how to get there. They knew only that whatever answers the Fundamentalists came up with must be wrong.

The battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.

Bonhoeffer's change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before.