Quotes about Perspective

If there's one thing I know, it's that God has a purpose for things. Everything fits together like a puzzle, but we're looking at it from a human angle. All we can see are missing pieces. He sees the big picture and knows how it all fits." Vicki

The knowledge of His sovereignty is meant to be an encouragement to pray, not an excuse to lapse into a sort of pious fatalism.

I grew up in the 1930s Great Depression when many families struggled to make ends meet, and in an area where old-fashioned country gospel music was popular. Later, as an adult with a more mature outlook on Christianity, I realized that a lot of that music was rather shallow.

Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word." (The Great Exchange)

In order to trust God, we must always view our adverse circumstances through the eyes of faith, not of sense.

But, as so often has been observed, we are to establish our beliefs by the Bible, not by our experiences.

How do we view those who do not show love for us? Do we see them as persons for whom Christ died or as persons who make our lives difficult?

But when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God who sent us our weather.

As we do so, it will be helpful to keep in mind that the biblical writers never seemed to be aware of the problem, except for one statement by Paul in Romans 9:19-21. And Paul's statement seems to raise

How futile and even arrogant for us to seek to determine what God is doing in a particular event or circumstance.

I believe one of our problems in dealing with this subject is that we tend to view the interaction between God and man on the same level as the interaction between man and man.

we are to establish our beliefs by the Bible, not by our experiences.