Quotes About Perspective

When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.

Our tendency is to pray for miracles. But in most situations, it is more appropriate to pray for opportunities. More than likely you need an opportunity rather than something

Preachers' kids who gravitate toward ministry are commodities. I hire all I can. We see church differently than everybody else.

Whenever we have more than we need, our natural assumption will be that it's for our own consumption.

Your past experience must be a grid through which you evaluate every decision. Chances are, there are places you have no business visiting because of your history—places that would have no impact on the average person, but the average person doesn't share your experience with those environments.

One of the primary reasons we don't seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear—and we just don't want to hear it.

Patience is the decision to move at someone else's pace rather than pressure him or her to match yours. Patience

Fear defies logic. Information only goes so far. Even when armed with all the reasons why we should not be afraid, the fear remains.

Love fills the gaps. Love reduces the friction created by our limited insight, knowledge, and judgment-inhibiting experiences. There is much I don't know. There are things I'll never understand. But my ignorance does not impede my capacity to put others first.

When our faith is down for the count, we need people who will speak truth to us, friends who will remind us of God's past faithfulness. We need people who will draw our attention outside of the realm of our immediate circumstances, people to put our circumstances in their proper context.

most of us want to be proven right more than we want to know what's true. We aren't on truth quests. We're on confirmation quests.

one of the primary reasons that you have to listen to outsiders: If you don't, you will be driven by the complaints and demands of the insiders.

Our tendency is to pray for miracles. But in most situations, it is more appropriate to pray for opportunities.

Your beliefs shape your attitudes!

Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens

This is my truth, tell me yours.

I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.