Quotes about Perspective

I was so caught up in the rush of superficial things in my world that I missed hearing the cries for help in someone else's world.

But in the end, one-sided views make for pretty flat-looking works of art.

Whatever attitude we bring into a situation will be multiplied.

The mind feasts on what it focuses on.

It is good to be honest with God, but we must be careful that we don't become whiners. There is nothing that aggravates my heart more than to hear whining and complaining, especially from my kids. I can't help but think the Lord might feel the same way.

If I look at my dreams, desires, and hopes for the future as coming from a place of scarcity and the world's limited supply, it will constantly feed the notion that someone else's success is a threat to mine.

We get empty when we park our minds on comparison thoughts and wallow in them.

After all, I will never be able to control what other people have going on in their heads or in their conversations. But with the help of the Holy Spirit in me, I can absolutely learn to control how much I allow the fear of their opinions to have access to my life.

I can't control the things that happen to me each day, but I can control how I think about them. I can say to myself, "I have a choice to have destructive thoughts or constructive thoughts right now. I can wallow in what's wrong and make things worse, or I can ask God for a better perspective to help me see good even when I don't feel good.

But, instead of wallowing in what I can't have, I'm making the choice to celebrate what I can have.

We consume what we think about. And what we think about can consume us if we're not careful.

it is clear the opposite of trusting God is leaning on our own understanding—trying to figure out things all on our own. And the evidence of whether or not I'm trusting Him is shown by where I place my focus. After all, we steer where we stare.