Quotes about Perspective

When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

Account no man happy till he dies.

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

Don't say I hate institutionalised religion - rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I'm saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

Remind yourself that other people's jobs aren't so simple.

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

Indeed, we might all forget where we have been if we didn't have somebody to assemble and arrange the little blocks called facts from which history is constructed, artfully or less so.

But there's a blessing in everything if we open our eyes.