Quotes about Perspective
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.
— Oswald Chambers
Our prayers are often filled with selfish "wants" God always answers with what we need.
— Anonymous
Asking for anything is allowed with the understanding that God's answers come from God's perspective. They are not always in harmony with our expectations for only He knows the whole story.
— Anonymous
We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.
— Oswald Chambers
The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God and that alters my view of actual things.
— Oswald Chambers
Some of the best people with whom you can have a relationship are the people who challenge your thinking.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
— William James
A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables."
— James Dobson
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
— Abraham Lincoln
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go.
— Rick Warren