Quotes About Perspective

Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn't even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.

Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction that only a miracle could save her, she would never know her beauty. She would see only what there was to see: the eyes of other people.

Imagine thinking of history this way! As a thing personally directed at you. As a series of events structured to make you feel one way or another, rather than the precondition of all our lives?

The unending problem of growing old was not how he changed, but how things did.

You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction.

Does anybody regret leaving a hotel room? Does anybody, who has a home, a real home somewhere, want to stay there? Does anybody look back with affection, or even disgust, at a hotel room when they leave it?

Anna clung to him while he explained that the scorpion's tail was up because it was just as scared of her as she was of it. In Detroit, watching baby-faced police handling guns, she remembered the scorpion's rigid tail.

Your view of God --- How big you think He is - will decide the size of your faith.

We need to make sure we are not analyzing the events in our lives from a secular, human, worldly point of view rather than from a divine, spiritual, godly point of view.

We fail to embrace a oneness perspective rooted in kingdom theology, though, unless we, like Joshua, surrender to the truth that God's kingdom is not here to take sides. God's kingdom is not black. God's kingdom is not white. God's kingdom is not Hispanic. Nor is it Asian, Middle Eastern, or Indian. God did not come to take sides. God came to take over. And until we bow beneath the overarching rules set forth by the Ruler in

When they wake up in the morning, they don't say, "Good morning, Lord." Rather, they say, "Good Lord, it's morning.

A person looking into a carnival mirror couldn't accurately describe the true person who is being reflected in the mirror. Neither can you accurately say what truth is when you look through the distorted mirror of your soul. The soul within you—how you see a matter—needs to be restored. You do this by exchanging your thoughts for God's truth.

first transform what you think.

Muchos creyentes le dicen a Dios: «Muéstrame y creeré»; pero Dios dice: «Cree y verás».

many men have come to view the church as a task to be done rather than a community to be in.

Muchos de los que desmayan en sus vidas y experiencias físicas y tangibles se frustran cuando tratan de cambiar las situaciones y dinámicas externas sin hacer un cambio en su interior.

We are happy to have God in our vicinity even though he is not in our midst. We like to have God in general, but we think we don't need God in specific.

For him, a universe imbued with the divine was not something to make you bow down but something to reassure you. The divinity of all things is normal, not awesome.

You see, dear—I think there are two types of people in the world. Those who divide the world up into two kinds of people... and those who don't.

It sounds to me, dear, as if your satirist is a bit like a monk. They both take a rather dim view of the world, and both try to do something about it. Thank you, Father Joe! I think I knew that once, but I'd forgotten. Contemptus mundi . We both have contempt for the world. You p-p-persist in your error, my son. Contemptus does not mean 'contempt.' It means 'detachment.' Are you detached from the things you satirize?

What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky.

So I've grown up to be one of those people who gets angry at trees for behaving like trees

While Americans tried to justify and glorify their Indian-killers, George Armstrong Custer in particular

Van Laar wasn't a climate change denier, nor did he talk defensively of the United States' appetite for oil. Rather, he confessed, "I don't give much of a fuck, and nobody I know does, either, because this industry is giving me a future, even if it's a short one and we're all about to toast together.