Quotes about Perspective

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

Why, after all, take as our standard a material world whose existence is affirmed by nothing more trustworthy than the sense-impressions of "normal men"; those imperfect and easily cheated channels of communication?

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.

I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbour's as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Some people have a warped idea of living the Christian life. Seeing talented, successful Christians, they attempt to imitate them. For them, the grass on the other side of the fence is always greener. But when they discover that their own gifts are different or their contributions are more modest (or even invisible), they collapse in discouragement and overlook genuine opportunities that are open to them. They have forgotten that they are here to serve Christ, not themselves.

Golden years' must have been coined by the young. It is doubtful that anyone over seventy would have described this phase of life with such a symbolic word.