Quotes about Perspective

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

It matters not to an empiricist from what quarter an hypothesis may come to him: he may have acquired it by fair means or by foul; passion may have whispered or accident suggested it; but if the total drift of thinking continues to confirm it, that is what he means by its being true.

a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries

What most of us do not realize is that we are being transformed in our thinking all the time—either by the world's value system or by the truth of God's Word.

God does hear what we pray. You don't need a megaphone or a million people to get His attention. But the point of prayer is not to get what we want. Prayer changes the person who prays.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is a tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.