Quotes about Perspective
Asking God for a specific thing will amount to limiting God to a specific answer.
— TB Joshua
If only we could see the value of one soul like God does.
— George Verwer
The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.
— Elisabeth Elliot
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