Quotes about Perspective

We do not expect a person always to be a flower, we have to understand his or her gardens as well.

I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

The formula "two and two make five" is not without its attractions.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

The change which takes place when we trust Jesus Christ is not only a change in our view of Christ. Through Christ, we look differently at both God's creation and our own circumstances.

Theology is not an excursion into the stratosphere that lies beyond scriptural sppech in time: it may not travel beyond the borders of faith's perspective. Beyond the word of Scripture we dare not go, in speech or theological reflection; for it is in this word that God's love in Jesus Christ is revealed. There is nothing beyond that.

The authority of God is unlike what is usually meant by "external authority" ... The authority of God brings perspective, joy and hope.

Scripture is the Word of God because the Holy Spirit witnesses in it of Christ. This understanding of the relation between the Spirit and Scripture opens up a perspective that is not locked in the past.