Quotes about Perspective

if you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never

The call is to do theology in loving community with other people. Truth not spoken in love ceases to be true because it's bent and twisted by other human agendas.

Their disappointed thinking had a fatal flaw in it. What they saw as being in the way of God's plan was actually part of his plan; what caused their faith to weaken was actually God's tool to build their faith.

How often do you see people as obstacles to ministry rather than the objects of it?

When you have one eye on eternity, this present physical world looks entirely different.

Perhaps in ways that you have never come close to considering, your dissatisfaction is an awe problem.

If you put too many things in your need category, you will end up frustrated with life, hurt by others, and doubting God's goodness.

We complain so much not because we have horizontal problems but because we have a vertical problem.

They were convinced that they had made the mistake of marrying a messed-up person; they were convinced that the other had made them do things they would not otherwise have done; and they were convinced that they had no power to make the other change, although they had tried.

There is no need to be paralyzed by the opinions of another. God gives you the ultimate tool of self-assessment, the mirror of his Word.

God loves too much to be willing to forsake his glorious kingdom of grace for your self-absorbed little kingdom of one.

It is tempting to forget that there is an eternity or to think that it doesn't make any difference in the present. Paul says just the opposite to the Corinthians; that if you only have Christ in this life, you are a person to be pitied. Eternity is the only thing that can give you a reason to continue.