Quotes about Perspective
When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.
— Oswald Chambers
To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.
— Oswald Chambers
I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.
— Oswald Chambers
I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him.
— Oswald Chambers
Conceit makes the way God deals with me personally the binding standard for others.
— Oswald Chambers
It takes God a long time to get us to stop thinking that unless everyone sees things exactly as we do, they must be wrong.
— Oswald Chambers
No sin is worse than the sin of self-pity, because it obliterates God and puts self-interest upon the throne.
— Oswald Chambers
say that "prayer changes things" is not as close to the truth as saying, "Prayer changes me and then I change things." God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things. Prayer is not a matter of changing things externally, but one of working miracles in a person's inner nature.
— Oswald Chambers
It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things.
— Oswald Chambers
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on our difficulties
— Oswald Chambers
The proper perspective to maintain is that we are here for only one purpose—to be captives marching in the procession of Christ's triumphs.
— Oswald Chambers
It is not the thing we spend the most time on that moulds us most; the greatest element is the thing that exerts most power.
— Oswald Chambers