Quotes about Perspective

While therefore your tears flow, let a due proportion be tears of joy. Yet take the bitter cup with both hands and sit down to your repast. You will soon learn a secret: that there is sweetness at the bottom.

White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort.

Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.

I never really realized how privileged I was in the way I grew up.

I am pro-life, but because life is complicated, that choice is between a woman and her idea of a higher power.

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.

It's easy to demonize from a distance.

To get others to do what you want them to do, you must see things through their eyes.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history. And now at my age I believe that with almost an increasing certainty.