Quotes about Perspective
Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.
— Shauna Niequist
The greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that this earth is our home.
— Randy Alcorn
I hope we can be happy where we are, be grateful for our blessings-now-here, accept the challenge that is ours and make the most of it, and don't be envious of others. God help us to be grateful.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.
— CS Lewis
I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.
— Will Rogers
There are some rich people who, no matter how much God sends their way, never seem to put their hope in their riches.
— Andy Stanley
Keep your hope in the Lord and your eyes focused on the hope of Heaven, not just on the here and now.
— Rick Warren
It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).
— Shane Claiborne
Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.
— Mark Twain
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
— Mark Twain
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
— Oscar Wilde