Quotes about Perspective

When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.

If you come at the Bible as if it's a document of encyclopedic information, you've pretty much killed any kind of life change in a seeker and unbeliever.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, learn to depend more on Him than myself, gained self-knowledge, and seen things in their right perspective.

After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

I realized I can do other things. I started developing opinions on serious matters and it's not all sugar and spice.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.