Quotes About Perspective

He and I have come full circle, except that now he's the child and I'm the adult. This time, he's begging me to stay and I'll soon be the one walking out the door. The cruelty of my next thought shames me: You reap what you sow.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

Everything is as real as nothing, whatever way the nothing itself is defined.

Life is a mind's attempt to win over other minds as along as it thinks the other minds are different from it.

Truth exists: whatever a man not able to tell is actually a truth!

A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you feel your life.

So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church.

The blamers resist change because they do not need to change, at least from their perspective. The problems all reside with other people and other situations. They don't see anything wrong with themselves. Blamers will blame. Blamers do not want to change.

Therein lies the problem with most churches. Churches perceive they are a friendly church because the members are friendly to one another. But they don't think about walking in the shoes of first-time guests. They don't look at their facilities, their parking, their website, or their friendliness from a guest perspective.

Prayerful Commitment 1 God, open my eyes that I might see my church as You see it. Let me see where change needs to take place, even if it is painful to me. And use me, I pray, to be an instrument of that change whatever the cost.

Beginners cringe at the thought of perspective, but you have to admit it's very cool once you see that car sitting on your paper like it was a real three-dimensional object! You don't want to be drawing side views all your life,

How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves.

To-day man is, and to-morrow he will be seen no more. And being removed out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind. O the dulness and hardness of man's heart, which thinketh only of the present, and looketh not forward to the future. Thou oughtest in every deed and thought so to order thyself, as if thou wert to die this day.

Quickly enough we feel and reckon up what we bear at the hands of others, but we reflect not how much others are bearing from us.

If you gave more frequent thought to your death than to a long life, you would unquestionably be more eager to amend your life.

let not the weight of the writer be a stumbling-block to thee, whether he be of little or much learning, but let the love of the pure Truth draw thee to read.

If you cannot sing like the lark and the nightingale, sing like the raven and the frogs in the pond. They sing as God has given them to sing.

If thou hast any good, believe that others have more, and so thou mayest preserve thy humility. It is no harm to thee if thou place thyself below all others; but it is great harm if thou place thyself above even one. Peace is ever with the humble man, but in the heart of the proud there is envy and continual wrath.

Who is so wise as to have perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinions of others.

If, with a single glance, you could see everything in the world spread out before your eyes, how fruitless a sight that would be! Raise your eyes to God on high and pray for your sins and deficiencies.

If it seemeth to thee that thou knowest many things, and understandest them well, know also that there are many more things which thou knowest not.

Be ofttimes mindful of the saying,(3) The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing. Strive, therefore, to turn away thy heart from the love of the things that are seen, and to set it upon the things that are not seen. For they who follow after their own fleshly lusts, defile the conscience, and destroy the grace of God.

All Scripture ought to be read in the spirit in which it was written.

Established custom is not easily relinquished, and no man is very easily led to see with the eyes of another. If thou rest more upon thy own reason or experience than upon the power of Jesus Christ, thy light shall come slowly and hardly; for God willeth us to be perfectly subject unto Himself, and all our reason to be exalted by abundant love towards Him.