Quotes about Perspective

I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.

The spirit of complaint is born out of an unwillingness to trust God with today. Like the Israelites, it means you are spending your time looking back toward Egypt or wishing for the future all the while missing what God is doing right now.

If I were your enemy, I'd disguise myself and manipulate your perspectives so that you'd focus on the wrong culprit—your husband, your friend, your hurt, your finances, anything or anyone except me. Because when you zero in on the most convenient, obvious places to strike back against your problems, you get the impression you're fighting for something. Even though all you're really doing is just . . . fighting. For nothing.

Believing that life interruptions—divine interruptions—are a privilege not only causes us to handle them differently but to await them eagerly.

God's way of getting your attention.

If I say, "You are wrong for judging people" then by my own standard I am wrong for judging you.

Heaven will be filled with people who realize throughout eternity they have no right to be there.

If there is anything that will make us blush in heaven, it will be the realization of how much we were loved on this earth-but didn't appreciate it.

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.