Quotes about Perspective
The problem isn't the Bible. The problem is coming to the Bible with expectations it's not set up to bear.
— Peter Enns
Maybe the Bible isn't God's owner's manual for us that answers all our questions about God and lays a script out for us to follow as we walk along the Christian path.
— Peter Enns
The book doesn't limit God.
— Peter Enns
Then we have the Gospel of John, the odd man out. John's story of Jesus is so out of step with the others that it is sometimes hard to see how he could be talking about the same person.
— Peter Enns
Love gives you eyes.
— Peter Kreeft
After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,
— Genesis 13:14
“Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?”
— Genesis 25:32
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.
— Genesis 29:20
But the donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not the donkey you have ridden all your life until today? Have I ever treated you this way before?” “No,” he replied.
— Numbers 22:30
Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west and north and south and east. See the land with your own eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan.
— Deuteronomy 3:27
But Gideon answered them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?
— Judges 8:2
Then David crossed to the other side and stood atop the mountain at a distance; there was a wide gulf between them.
— 1 Samuel 26:13