Quotes about Perspective
God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.
— Lou Holtz
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
— Teresa of Avila
Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.
— Philip Yancey
If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.
— William Temple
Our prayer is not simply, 'Dear God, please send me a better job,' but, 'Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.
— Marianne Williamson
I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.
— Billy Graham
Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
— DA Carson
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.
— Oswald Chambers
Our prayers are often filled with selfish "wants" God always answers with what we need.
— Anonymous
Asking for anything is allowed with the understanding that God's answers come from God's perspective. They are not always in harmony with our expectations for only He knows the whole story.
— Anonymous