Quotes about Perspective

Let him who is about to accuse God consider the greatness of the God accused.

the important issue facing Christians who suffer is not "Is God responsible?" but "How should I react now that this terrible thing has happened?

It makes all the difference in the world whether I view my neighbor as a potential convert or as someone whom God already loves.

It is not the same as optimism or wishful thinking, for these imply a denial of reality.

Revelation 12 presents Christmas from a cosmic perspective, adding a new set of images to the familiar scenes of manger and shepherds and the slaughter of the innocents.

A grace-full Christian is one who looks at the world through "grace-tinted lenses.

C. S. Lewis said, "If you read history you will find out that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next… Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

It takes no grace to relate to someone who looks, thinks, and acts just like me.

It takes great effort, and considerable faith, to keep the Big Picture in mind. In some ways it makes me feel utterly insignificant, in some ways eternally significant

At times, God's history seems to operate on an entirely different plane than ours...Exodus identifies by name the two Hebrew midwives who helped save Moses' life, but it does not bother to record the name of the Pharaoh ruling Egypt (an omission that has baffled scholars ever since).

Over time Christians learned that the faith grows best from the bottom up rather than being imposed from the top down.

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is required. The stars neither require it nor demand it. ANNIE DILLARD