Quotes about Perspective

Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music.

If you let your circumstances define the way you see God, you are a prisoner of perspective. Or worse, a prisoner of your past mistakes! But if you let God define the way you see your circumstances, you are a prisoner of hope.

I'm willing to die on, but there are some I'm not willing to die on. I won't engage in the combat of criticism. It is sideways energy, and it doesn't have a redemptive purpose. I overlook the offense so I can keep playing offense.

We usually hear what we want to hear and turn a deaf ear to everything else. But remember the package deal? If we don't listen to everything God has to say, we eventually won't hear anything He has to say. And we probably need to hear most what we want to hear least. But this I know for sure: His tone of voice is always loving. Sometimes it's tough love in the form of rebuke or discipline, but it's loving, nonetheless.

If you're looking for an excuse, you'll always find one. If you're looking for an opportunity, you'll always find one.

Everybody wants a miracle; we just don't want to be in a situation where we need one. You can't have one without the other. Sometimes what we perceive as our problem is really God setting us up to do something miraculous in our lives. It's about training ourselves to see those problems as opportunities so God can intervene.

And it's often what we want to hear least that we need to hear most. Trust me, though, you want to hear what He has to say.

we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

G. K. Chesterton said that his goal in life was to take nothing for granted—not a sunrise, not a smile, not a flower, nothing. That is a truly wonderful approach to life. Don't take anything for granted. Truly appreciate every minute that you have to live. My near-death experience has helped me be better at that. If I hadn't almost died, I wouldn't have figured out how to live.

From the secular to the sacred, we can focus on ourselves or others.

It's not about being in the right place at the right time; it's about being the right person, even if you find yourself in the wrong circumstances.

What do you do when God's logic doesn't line up with yours? When the will of God doesn't add up? When you think you know better or know more than God?