Quotes about Perspective

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.

People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment." ? Myles Munroe, Understanding Your Poten

We are products of our culture and interpret the world through our mental conditioning.

The picture that we have of ourselves—our self-concept—will always determine how we respond to life.

What you see as a crisis, God sees as an opportunity for growth. What you see as humiliating, He sees as an occasion for the development of humble leadership. It is all in how you see it. What is your perspective?

Words are an extension of our thoughts, but we are our thoughts. Proverbs 23:7 says, "As [a man] thinks in his heart, so is he" (nkjv). God desires not to talk to you, but to "think" to you. This is what Jesus meant when He said, "I do what I see My Father doing" (John 5:19). The text implies, "I do what I mentally see My Father thinking.

All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.

We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping around in them, but he gradually builds out and grows up. Perhaps it's a measure of our maturity when parts of Scripture that we found odd or even repellent suddenly come up in a new light. Our sense is overtaken by a sense of the whole thing, wide, multicolored, and unspeakably powerful.

Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the powerful, and the unscrupulous do not after all have the last word.