Quotes about Perspective
All a man’s ways seem right to him, but the LORD weighs the heart.
— Proverbs 21:2
When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
— Proverbs 23:5
So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.
— Ecclesiastes 4:2
But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.
— Ecclesiastes 4:3
When good things increase, so do those who consume them; what then is the profit to the owner, except to behold them with his eyes?
— Ecclesiastes 5:11
It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.
— Ecclesiastes 7:2
Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is unwise of you to ask about this.
— Ecclesiastes 7:10
There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.
— Ecclesiastes 9:4
So if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is futile.
— Ecclesiastes 11:8
They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!”
— Isaiah 14:10
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
— Isaiah 55:9
until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
— Lamentations 3:50