Quotes about Perspective

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day.

The author concedes that humanity had the fatal tendency to shape truth to our beliefs rather than beliefs to the Truth.

People are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

Don't sit on your patio in the high noon of your tranquility and make light of the huts that people build in the midnight of their desperation.

If there is a disease in the preaching that I hear most often, it's not that what the minister says is wrong. It's that it is just too small.

To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances to the contrary. Please, this is not some Pollyanna optimism that is blind to the reality of evil, but rather like a fine radar system that is tuned in to the true, the good, and the beautiful.

One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.

The antithesis of giving thanks is grumbling. The grumblers live in a state of self-induced stress.

Every change in the quality of a person's life must grow out of a change in his or her vision of reality.

In prayer Jesus slows us down, teaches us to count how few days we have, and gifts us with wisdom. He reveals to us that we are so caught up in what is urgent that we have overlooked what is essential. He ends our indecision and liberates us from the oppression of false deadlines and myopic vision.