Quotes about Perspective
Pain allows us, the fortunate ones at least, to lead free and active lives. If you ever doubt that, visit a leprosarium and observe for yourself a world without pain.
— Philip Yancey
Not until history has run its course will we understand how "all things work together for good." Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.
— Philip Yancey
How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?
— Philip Yancey
It makes a huge difference whether I treat a nonbeliever as someone who is wrong rather than as someone who is on the way but lost.
— Philip Yancey
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Strategy 1—Against Your Passion He seeks to dim your whole desire for prayer, dull your interest in spiritual things, and downplay the potency of your most strategic weapons (Eph. 6:10—20). Strategy 2—Against Your Focus He disguises himself and manipulates your perspective so you end up focusing on the wrong culprit, directing your weapons at the wrong enemy (2 Cor. 11:14). Strategy 3—Against Your Identity
— Priscilla Shirer
He warps your perspective on the current events in your life until reality appears much worse and more desperate than it truly is.
— Priscilla Shirer
You may not understand what all's happening in your life right now, but any possible explanation pales in comparison to what you do know because of your faith in God's goodness and assurance.
— Priscilla Shirer
If I were your enemy, I'd disguise myself and manipulate your perspectives so that you'd focus on the wrong culprit—your husband, your friend, your hurt, your finances, anything or anyone except me. Because when you zero in on the most convenient, obvious places to strike back against
— Priscilla Shirer
Strategy 2—Against Your Focus He disguises himself and manipulates your perspective so you end up focusing on the wrong culprit, directing your weapons at the wrong enemy (2 Cor. 11:14).
— Priscilla Shirer
blessing. • When you consider your level of willingness to give of yourself, does it reveal more contentment or discontentment residing
— Priscilla Shirer
As C. S. Lewis put it, "Aim at heaven and you will get the earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
— RT Kendall