Quotes about Perspective
When good things increase, so do those who consume them; what then is the profit to the owner, except to behold them with his eyes?
— Ecclesiastes 5:11
It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.
— Ecclesiastes 7:2
Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is unwise of you to ask about this.
— Ecclesiastes 7:10
There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.
— Ecclesiastes 9:4
So if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is futile.
— Ecclesiastes 11:8
They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!”
— Isaiah 14:10
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
— Isaiah 55:9
until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
— Lamentations 3:50
Twelve months later, as he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon,
— Daniel 4:29
Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a ram with two horns standing beside the canal. The horns were long, but one was longer than the other, and the longer one grew up later.
— Daniel 8:3
Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”
— Jonah 4:9
‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not appear to you like nothing in comparison?’
— Haggai 2:3