Quotes about Perspective

Intercession is about putting ourselves in other's shoes or having sympathy with others. But intercessions are about having the mind of God and see things through His perspective

The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.

My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.

There is such a danger of our being more occupied with the things that are coming than with Him who is to come.

I used to think that God's gifts were on shelves—one above another—and the taller we grow, the easier we can reach them. Now I find that God's gifts are on shelves—and the lower we stoop, the more we get.

Do not be thinking of how little you have to bring God, but of how much He wants to give you.

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!

Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.