Quotes about Perspective

It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.

But—we must ask today—why then did no one listen to Overbeck?

If we cannot defend the things of this world and if none of the relationships in which we walk the earth can withstand the criticism which reduces the whole to relativity, we can still love them and we need take the criticism no more seriously than it deserves (pp. 29, 248).

When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.

A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.

The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.