Quotes about Perspective

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.

The next time you're tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children, we tend to copy our parents.

Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the term is not possible without putting one's own faith into parentheses.

From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there.

I consider myself an average man except for the fact that I consider myself an average man.

When I was little, I used to think that the sky at night was a big, black blanket that separated heaven from earth, and the stars were a whole bunch of little pin holes that the angels poked in the blanket so they could look down on us.

If you feel far from God, guess who moved?

Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn't answer.