Quotes about Perspective
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
— Teresa of Avila
The biggest enemy to prayer is praying for something you already have.
— Bill Johnson
Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.
— Craig Groeschel
Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
— Philip Yancey
I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.
— Lewis Carroll
God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.
— Lou Holtz
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
— Teresa of Avila
Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.
— Philip Yancey
If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.
— William Temple
Our prayer is not simply, 'Dear God, please send me a better job,' but, 'Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.
— Marianne Williamson
I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.
— Billy Graham
Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
— DA Carson