Quotes about Perspective

It's so easy to load life onto your shoulders and be more motivated by low-grade anxiety than by divine awe.

there's no such things as a purely horizontal complaint. If I am complaining about the insensitivity of my physician, the lack of attention I am getting from my pastor, and the fact that my friends lack sympathy and understanding, I'm not just complaining about those people but also about the God who ordained all of them to be in my life.

He reminds us not to live for the treasures of the moment:

If eternity is the plan, then it makes no sense to shrink your living down to the needs and wants of this little moment.

So much of our disappointment in relationships is not because we have an unrealistic view of others, but because we have a distorted view of ourselves.

Whatever sits on the other side of your "if-only" is where you are looking for life, peace, joy, hope,

the way to defeat the dangerous potential of complaint is not by silence but by praise. The more you commit yourself to counting your blessings, the more you will have eyes to see specific blessings in your life.

We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.

Here it is. When the enemy somehow tricks you into squeezing the size of your life to the size of your personal dreams, wants, and needs, he has got you right where he wants you.

Envy denies grace. The assumption of envy is that we deserve what another has been given, when, in fact, you and I deserve nothing.

Today you will spend solitary moments of conversation with yourself, either listing your complaints or counting your blessings.

We were meant to see more than our physical eyes can see,