Quotes about Perspective

As a counselor, I have spoken with many people who want to know their spiritual gifts. They come hoping for some sort of diagnostic test that will precisely locate them. My impression is that this perspective represents a breakdown in the church. It reflects a church where we are running around as self-actualizing individuals rather than uniting as a God-glorifying community.

You can lead a boy to college but you can't make him think.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hopes that the cow will back up to them.

Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

the ease with which the big crises can wipe out the small ones that seemed so critical just a moment before. All of our small anxieties and trivial preoccupations evaporate with the sudden recognition of what really matters. We are reminded of the impermanence of much that we assume is forever and the value of so much we take for granted.

Countless things in our daily lives can awaken the almost constant state of wonder we knew as children. But sometimes to see them we must look through a different set of eyes.

Like dropping through a hole in everything that the world said was important….Like discovering that nothing else mattered and all I needed was now….Temporarily removed from the game….Like floating weightless on the Dead Sea and looking up at an empty sky.