Quotes about Perspective

If we stare at our problems too much, think and talk about them too much, they are likely to defeat us. Glance at your problems but stare at Jesus.

You are never going to enjoy the promise of the new life (see Rom. 4:16) Jesus died to give you until you change the way you think. It's not about what you can do—it's about what Jesus has done for you.

Instead of assuming the worst, believe the best.

One of the most valuable things you can do in order to live a hope-filled, joyful, overcoming life is to believe the best in every situation.

Sometimes when people feel strongly about something, that is all they preach about. That is wrong. There needs to be a balance. We need to use common sense even in our spiritual life. In

When we keep our eyes on our problems, we feel defeated and discouraged (see Numbers 13:31—32), but when we realize God is bigger than our problems, we can experience victory.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." I

We can change our quality of life by changing your attitude toward the big and small things that usually irritate and anger us.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Books are not men—

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)

People of faith can read the Bible so that almost any perspective on a current issue will find some support in the Bible. That rich and multivoiced offering in the Bible is what makes appeals to it so tempting—and yet so tricky and hazardous, because much of our reading of the Bible turns out to be an echo of what we thought anyway. THE ISSUE OF LAND The dispute between Palestinians and Israelis is elementally about land and secondarily about security and human rights.