Quotes about Perspective

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

I grew up with very little - so material things have never been that important for me.

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

But I don't see myself as a woman in science. I see myself as a scientist.

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.

Parent and child may both love, but - unbeknown to the child - each party is on a different end of the axis. This is why, in adulthood, when we first long for 'love', what we mean is that we want to 'be loved' as we were once loved by a parent.

By failing to let others be themselves before God and move at their own pace, we inevitably project onto them our own discomfort with their choice to live life differently than we do.

What we think has a strong influence on what we feel. John

Generally speaking, the reason the church fails to have a more positive, transforming influence on our culture is that we do not fully grasp the Bible-based, Christ-centered, Spirit-empowered, God-glorifying perspective that belongs to us by grace—which is why we need to learn how to live the right worldview.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.