Quotes about Perspective

It's not faith to say that when something painful happens, when you lose and lose again and the hurt goes so deep that you don't think you can take another breath, it's all going to work out for good. Faith doesn't explain. It doesn't even need to know or expect a happy ending. That's not what we're promised. Faith is abandoning illusions. It rests in something bigger, something beyond us and our ability. And I suspect you know that now.

It is a grace to be able to hold onto someone who runs at life when you can only imagine walking.

People let their feelings push them away from God or away from believing that their life makes a difference. They think that because they don't see God working the way they think He should work, He's not there. Or they think He doesn't care and they get discouraged."

God had used a blind man to show him what he couldn't see. That made John smile through his tears.

You had to see what you had instead of what you didn't have. Start from where you are, not from where you want to be.

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

Whether one believes in miracles or the miraculous has mostly to do with the presuppositions one brings to the subject.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

You and I will only be able to understand what is valuable when we examine things from the perspective of eternity.

He uses the difficult seasons in our relationships to allow us to see what we typically live for besides him.

Everything God does and everything God calls us to only make sense from the perspective of eternity. If there is no end to the story, believers are a bunch of fools who need to be pitied. There is no reason for what we have tried to do. But there is a final chapter! God has opened it up so that we could look in and then look back to our lives with understanding and hope.