Quotes about Perspective

But the donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not the donkey you have ridden all your life until today? Have I ever treated you this way before?” “No,” he replied.

Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west and north and south and east. See the land with your own eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan.

But Gideon answered them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?

Then David crossed to the other side and stood atop the mountain at a distance; there was a wide gulf between them.

The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!

Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?

What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.

Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.

how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”

So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.