Quotes about Perspective

Every burden is a blessing.

If you would have your home and your surroundings happy, be happy. You can transform everything around you if you will transform yourself.

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

If you were born to be a nail, you cannot curse the hammer.

When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry.

I've discovered that the things that happen in my life make a lot more sense when I include God in the picture. It's like trying to work a jigsaw puzzle without the picture on the front of the box. You can do it, but the task of putting thousands of tiny pieces together will sure go easier and make a lot more sense if you can take a peek at the bigger picture now and then.

Sometimes when He seems the farthest away from us, He's really the closest.

Even after the war, Eugenia, do you still put people into categories the way you were taught to do—rich and poor, socially acceptable and not, black and white?" "I haven't placed them there. Life has." "But people are all the same in God's eyes, don't you think? Or do you believe there will be segregated divisions in heaven like the ones we've created here on earth?

I will thank Him for all that He has given me, not curse Him for all that I've lost.

It's impossible to hold up the banners of victim and victory at the same time.

If the enemy can isolate us, he can influence us. And his favorite entry point of all is through our disappointments