Quotes about Perspective

We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.

The very animals whose smell is most offensive to us have no idea that they are offensive, and are not offensive to one another.

Depend on it; there is no surer road to unhappiness than always having our own way. To have our wills checked and denied is a blessed thing for us; it makes us value enjoyments when they come. To be indulged perpetually is the way to be made selfish, and selfish people and spoiled children are seldom happy.

The name which I have selected will prepare the reader to expect no new doctrines in this volume. It is simple, unadulterated, old-fashioned Evangelical theology. It contains nothing but the "Old Paths" in which the Apostolic Christians, the Reformers, the best English Churchmen for the last three hundred years, and the best Evangelical Christians of the present day, have persistently walked.

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren land; long heath, broth furze, any thing.

Do you want to speak to the man in charge—or the nurse who knows what's going on?

Understand that the best gifts in life come as blessings; we do not go out looking for them.

A powerful exercise for building your appreciation muscle is to take 7 minutes every morning to write down all the things you appreciate in your life. I recommend this as a daily ritual for the rest of your life; however, if you think that is excessive, at least do it for 30 to 40 days. It will create a huge change in how you see the world.

And belief is a choice. It is simply a thought you choose to think over and over until it becomes automatic.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Her essay about the wedding ring was short. Kerr wrote: "Things are just things - they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only people can do that. And we can all choose whether to be hurt or healed by the people who love us." That was all. And that was everything.

There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.