Quotes About Perspective

I grew up in the 1930s Great Depression when many families struggled to make ends meet, and in an area where old-fashioned country gospel music was popular. Later, as an adult with a more mature outlook on Christianity, I realized that a lot of that music was rather shallow.

Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word." (The Great Exchange)

The reason most of us do not see opportunities to serve is that we are continually thinking about ourselves instead of others.

In order to trust God, we must always view our adverse circumstances through the eyes of faith, not of sense.

If Christ grieved over unrepentant Jerusalem, does He not grieve over unrepentant America as well? If we would fully enter into the fellowship of His sufferings, we must begin to see sin from His point of view.

But, as so often has been observed, we are to establish our beliefs by the Bible, not by our experiences.

How do we view those who do not show love for us? Do we see them as persons for whom Christ died or as persons who make our lives difficult? I

when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God

As we do so, it will be helpful to keep in mind that the biblical writers never seemed to be aware of the problem, except for one statement by Paul in Romans 9:19-21. And Paul's statement seems to raise

How futile and even arrogant for us to seek to determine what God is doing in a particular event or circumstance.

I believe one of our problems in dealing with this subject is that we tend to view the interaction between God and man on the same level as the interaction between man and man.

So we should never ask why in the sense of demanding that God explain or justify His actions or what He permits in our lives.

we are to establish our beliefs by the Bible, not by our experiences.

And we should remember that God works in history from an eternal perspective, whereas we tend to view the outworking of history from a temporal perspective.

Bitterness usually stems not so much from the other person's actions as from the effects of those actions on our lives. Consider the following scenario in your life.

What was it that caused such a dramatic mood change in the heart of the writer? He turns from the circumstances at hand to the Lord.

We, too, if we would speak of the Lord's great faithfulness, must turn from our circumstances to the Lord.

We must see our circumstances through God's love instead of, as we are prone to do, seeing God's love through our circumstances.

stories aren't ideas. They're not concepts or definitions. They're experience.

There's two heads to every coin.

One man's modus ponens is another man's reductio, as epistemologists are forever pointing out (In Critical Condition, p. 70)

One man's affirmation of the consecuent is another's man inference to the best explanation (Psychosemantics, pp. 149)

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.