Quotes about Perspective

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit is lost in the clouds and a humble grain of sand trodden underfoot by passers-by.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.

The next time you're tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children, we tend to copy our parents.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the term is not possible without putting one's own faith into parentheses.

From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there.