Quotes about Perspective

Jesus doesn't divide the world up into the common and the sacred; he gives us eyes to see the sacred in the common.

This is because conviction and humility, like faith and doubt, are not opposites; they're dance partners. It's possible to hold your faith with open hands, living with great conviction and yet at the same time humbly admitting that your knowledge and perspective will always be limited.

If there is a divine being who made everything, including us, what would our experiences with this being look like? The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God. We are dealing with somebody we made up. And if we made him up, then we are in control. And so in passage after passage, we find God reminding people that he is beyond and bigger and more.

When you're fighting, it's absolutely crucial to keep remembering that they're trying to figure it out just like you are.

To fully appreciate the Bible, you have to let it be what it is.

We rob ourselves of immeasurable joy when we compare what we do know about ourselves with what we don't know about someone else.

But sometimes when I hear people quote the Bible, I just want to throw up.

Success is when you're seduced into thinking that your joy and satisfaction are not here but there--somewhere in the future, at some moment when you accomplish X or you win Y. Success can never get enough. It makes your head spin, because you get that thing you were desperately working for, for all those years, and when you get it, you realize that it isn't what you thought it was.

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don't believe in, we quickly discover that I don't believe in that god either. So when we hear that a certain person has "rejected Christ," we should first ask, "Which Christ?

What's the Best Question to Ask When You're Reading the Bible? Why did people find this important to write down?...Why did people write this down? What was going on in their world that this was important to them? Why did they feel the need to put words to this? Start with that question. Start with those questions. And see what happens.

Some things that religious people make a big deal of are rather pointless. Avoid the insanity.

The Bible is a library of books reflecting how human beings have understood the divine.