Quotes about Perspective

Worry is an old man with a bent head, carrying a load of feathers he thinks is lead.

Everything that we see about us that we count is our possessions only comprises a loan from God, and it is when we lose sight of this all-pervading truth that we become greedy and covetous.

Life is not a matter of dollars and cents, houses and lands, earning capacity and financial achievement. Greed must not be allowed to make man the slave of wealth.

Money takes our minds off God.

Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.

Having an attitude of thankfulness in all of life's circumstances will help you react as old Matthew Henry did when he was mugged. He wrote in his diary, "Let me be thankful first because I was never robbed before; second, although they took my purse, they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth, because it was I who was robbed, not I who robbed." I wonder if I could be that thankful!

Part of our problem with debt is that we have confused needs with wants. Yesterday's luxuries are today's necessities.

Grief which is not dealt with properly can cause us to lose our perspective on life.

The Bible will always be the center of controversy.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.

For the Greeks, beauty is truth; for the Hebrews, truth is beauty.