Quotes about Perspective
He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
— Job 41:27
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
— Psalm 39:5
They are free of the burdens others carry; they are not afflicted like other men.
— Psalm 73:5
until I entered God’s sanctuary; then I discerned their end.
— Psalm 73:17
For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.
— Psalm 90:4
For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice.
— Proverbs 7:6
All a man’s ways are pure in his own eyes, but his motives are weighed out by the LORD.
— Proverbs 16:2
The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
— Proverbs 18:17
All a man’s ways seem right to him, but the LORD weighs the heart.
— Proverbs 21:2
When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
— Proverbs 23:5
So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.
— Ecclesiastes 4:2
But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.
— Ecclesiastes 4:3