Quotes about Perspective
When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.
— Oswald Chambers
The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.
— Rowan Williams
What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.
— St. John Chrysostom
She wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.
— Donald Miller
The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.
— Francis Schaeffer
We don't realise how much the world has affected us. We put God in the background.
— Henry Blackaby
We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The most important thing you think is what you think about God.
— AW Tozer
A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.
— AW Tozer
We often try to put God in a box. The God who fits in our boxes isn't the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
— AW Tozer
The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God.
— AW Tozer
This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.
— John Piper