Quotes about Perspective

the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

In thinking about His many blessings, you view God's work from a new perspective.

I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.

I could eat healthier, I could drink less. I should be learning another language and working out more, but I'm just always saying, 'Ah, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.'

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

I grew up in a family of storytellers, but Google has destroyed us because you can fact-check everything. We'd always like the stories to be a little better than they were.

Whenever you believe that the evil outside you is greater than the evil inside you, a heartfelt pursuit of Christ will be replaced by a zealous fighting of the "evil" around you.

All of us respond to life based upon who we think we are and what we think we have.

We don't just struggle with want; we struggle with blessing as well.

Who you tell yourself you are has a very powerful impact on the way you deal with the big and small issues of daily life. In the same way, where you find your identity will have everything to do with how you respond to the hard work of relationships with others. Either I get my identity vertically, out of my sense of who God is and worship who he has made me in Christ, or I will seek to get my identity horizontally, out of my circumstances, relationships, and successes.