Quotes about Perspective
Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?
- Philip Yancey
Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!
- Pope John Paul II
When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.
- Richard Paul Evans
The way God teaches us to live by faith is He takes away our feelings.
- Rick Warren
We have a choice of focusing on our problems or focusing on God, who holds the solution.
- Rick Warren
I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to understand the Internet. I don't have the brain capacity.
- Rick Warren
There are as many versions of God as there are people in the world.
- Deepak Chopra
Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
- Elbert Hubbard
How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
- GK Chesterton
God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
- Henry David Thoreau
I just think that trusting God means we're going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we're never going to understand them all.
- Joel Osteen
I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.
- Joel Osteen