Quotes About Perspective

God provides not only in what he gives us, but at times in what he keeps from us. Have you ever noticed that excess money just seems to dissipate in a multitude of directions?

In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.

Jim Elliot put it, "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." Why work for what has no lasting value? Why rejoice over what in the end will not matter?

Many people conclude that God can't be real, because we can't see Him. And Heaven can't be real, because we can't see it. But we must recognize our blindness. The blind must take by faith that there are stars in the sky. If they depend on their ability to see, they will conclude there are no stars.

The people who change lives are the ones who point us away from the world's short-term perspective to God's long-term perspective. Life on earth is a dot, a brief window of opportunity; life in Heaven (and ultimately on the New Earth) is a line going out from that dot for eternity. If we're smart, we'll live not for the dot, but for the line.

Montaigne said something that rings true for many of us: "My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.

Life on earth is a dot, a brief window of opportunity; life in Heaven (and ultimately on the New Earth) is a line going out from that dot for eternity. If we're smart, we'll live not for the dot, but for the line.

Countless people in worse situations are happier than those in better situations. This demonstrates that happiness is dependent not on circumstances but on perspective, which is determined by our focus.

Why aren't you happy?" they tend to focus on their current circumstances. Happy people look to Someone so big that by his grace, even great difficulties provide opportunities for a deeper kind of happiness.

When you pretend you don't feel hurt or angry or devastated, you're not fooling God. Be honest! Don't misunderstand; I am not encouraging you to be angry at God or to blame him. He deserves no blame. Rather, I am encouraging you to honestly confess to God your feelings of hurt, resentment, and anger. Often we look at suffering from our perspective and forget that God sees from another vantage point.

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us." —A. W. Tozer

But earth is not heaven." "And those who expect it to be," Dani said, "can never know Joy.

Aim at Heaven and you will get earth 'thrown in': aim at earth and you will get neither."34 We need a generation of heavenly minded people who see human beings and the earth itself not simply as they are, but as God intends them to be.

Perhaps you're afraid of becoming "so heavenly minded you're of no earthly good." Relax—you have nothing to worry about! On the contrary, many of us are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly or earthly good.

Never let your prey consider he neither created "his" time nor earned it. He cannot keep it, store it up, or take it with him when he exits earth. So why does he consider it "his" time? Because he's a fool.

Randy Boyagoda

Nothing will infect you with a negative view of the world faster than hanging around people with harmful belief systems.

Your emotions are governed not by the circumstances of your life, but by the circumstances to which you pay attention

La realidad es una ilusión de tu percepción... Cambia la percepción y cambiarás la realidad.

Cualquier cosa a la que rindes culto puede ser Dios porque Dios existe en todo lo vivo y lo muerto que nos rodea. Está en todas partes y en todo. Si uno tuviera suficiente fe en una piedra, esa piedra un día abriría los ojos y le mostraría al dios que vive en ella. No importa a qué decida uno rendirle culto, ya sea a una piedra, a un hombre, a un árbol o a una serpiente.

Assumptions are what the brain is best at. Some days, I suspect that makes us despair.

how we think we know what we think we know.

there are no absolute rights or wrongs; rather, there is less understanding and more understanding.

The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.