Quotes about Perspective

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

Maybe we all need a glimpse of life without someone we love once in a while, just to teach us not to take them for granted.

Someone really wise once told me that even Christians aren't immune to tragedy. That we can't use this fallen world to gauge our value to God.

Gratitude means you stop focusing on what you don't have and start focusing on what you do have.

turn your complaints into praise and watch what God can do!

As Joyce Meyer candidly puts it, "Complain and Remain.

Change What You're Saying and You'll Change What You're Seeing

if you are 42 years old, you only have 36 more Christmases left with your family. If you are 57 years old, you only have 21 more summers to enjoy at the lake. If you're 63 years old, that's 15 more birthday cakes with your family. Fifteen! That's nothing! It makes you view life more seriously, doesn't it?

Because your voice is the most influential voice in your life! If you want to see where your life is headed, listen to the words that are coming out of your mouth.

all the while I was thinking that I was the only man who did not know what I was about, and that all the others did—whereas, as I found out later, pretty much everybody else was as much in the dark as I was.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.