Quotes about Perspective
Often, without being at all aware of it, men judge themselves, not by God's rule, but by their own.
- Charles Finney
I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.
- Rick Warren
Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.
- Charles Stanley
I don't see the big picture. I don't have a clue. But I know God does. I'm going to declare that, even if I don't feel it right now.
- Steven Curtis Chapman
Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.
- Charles Stanley
Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.
- Samuel Rutherford
Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.
- NT Wright
Too often we try to use God to change our circumstance, when God is trying to use our circumstance to change us.
- Nicky Gumbel
Colossians 1:16 tells us that everything was created FOR God... don't we live instead as though God is created for US, to do OUR bidding, to bless US, and to take care of OUR loved ones?
- Francis Chan
Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
- Ann Voskamp
Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.
- Oswald Chambers
It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.
- CS Lewis