Quotes about Perspective

The role of biblical counselors is facilitate the discovery of a greater God awareness through spiritual eyes that look at life through scriptural lenses.

To complain is to say in effect; "God, You blew it! You had a chance to meet my expectations, but You couldn't handle it! Nice try, God, close—but not close enough." So complaining definitely injures you and the Lord.

So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.

Gratitude is the attitude that sets the altitude for living!

The marquee scrolling across our minds trying to reinterpret life reads: "God-Against-Us." This becomes the dominant lens through which our flesh interprets life. We no longer give our loving Father the benefit of the doubt. Instead, we view every event as conclusive proof that God is against us.

I experience transcendence when something infinite reminds me I am finite.

Turning to him, Spurgeon said, "If you had gone up the way you came down, you could have come down the way you went up.

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.

Infinite players die. Since the boundaries of death are always part of the play, the infinite player does not die at the end of the play, but in the course of play.

Infinite players regard their wins and losses in whatever finite games they play as but moments in continuing play.

Although it may be evident enough in theory that whoever plays a finite game plays freely, it is often the case that finite players will be unaware of this absolute freedom and will come to think that whatever they do they must do.

Explanation sets the need for further inquiry aside; narrative invites us to rethink what we thought we knew.