Quotes about Perspective

The Bible changes your perspective on the people, events, and circumstances of your day.

He encourages us to decide to have a joyful attitude. James' first rule for joyful living in unjoyful circumstances is to "count it all joy.

When you study God's Word and incorporate His wisdom and principles into your daily life, your whole perspective will change.

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

What's descriptive isn't necessarily prescriptive.

For the skeptic no proof is possible, and for the "believer" no proof is necessary.

To relate to God's word this way requires us to get beyond using the Bible merely as a textbook to study, a book of proof texts for arguments, or a promise book to which we occasionally turn. Cherishing God's word requires us to seek the perspective of the psalmist who, distancing himself from the proud and the scoffers of his day, says of the man who is walking with God, "His delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night" (Psalm 1:2).

Even a lifetime of grief is only a little while in light of Eternity.

The mere fact that a belief is unpopular at present (or at some other time) is interesting from a sociological point of view but evidentially irrelevant.

The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact that these are not widely shared outside the Christian or theistic community is interesting but fundamentally irrelevant.

I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.