Quotes about Perspective

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.

T}here is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity.

I believe that the truth about any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together, and all their different meanings make one new one. Each writer writes the missing parts to the other writer's story. And the whole story is what I'm after.

I already had my bad luck,' she say. 'I had enough to keep me laughing the rest of my life.

God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone — a roofleaf or Christ — but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.

Still, it is like Shug say, You have to git man off your eyeball, before you can see anything a'tall

But all things look brighter because I have a loving soul to share them with.

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, author,

Or maybe he should always just expect the worst. Most often he would be right, and the few times he was not, at least he would be pleasantly surprised.

One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful; we take for granted what God has done for us. We let what once was a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to goodness, it becomes routine; it doesn't really excite us anymore.