Quotes About Perspective

I'm looking forward to the most fascinating experience in life, which is dying.

People ask me how many times I've taken LSD--and I don't count. But it's the same thing when they ask me how many times I've made love. The answer is, not enough.

I have been called an irrepressible optimist. The opposite of an irrepressible optimist is a repressive pessimist

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind

Whether you experience heaven or hell, remember that it is your mind which creates them.

If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.

You can choose to say, "Good Morning God" or "Good God, morning!

to judge darkness as bad or wrong is akin to judging whether up is better than down, or whether blue is better than red

All of us respond to life based upon who we think we are and what we think we have.

We don't just struggle with want; we struggle with blessing as well.

Who you tell yourself you are has a very powerful impact on the way you deal with the big and small issues of daily life. In the same way, where you find your identity will have everything to do with how you respond to the hard work of relationships with others. Either I get my identity vertically, out of my sense of who God is and worship who he has made me in Christ, or I will seek to get my identity horizontally, out of my circumstances, relationships, and successes.

Look at your relationship to money. What does it tell you about your relationship to God?

have a tendency to do this with parenting: If I can just get through the diaper phase. . . . Once my children were out of diapers, it became: If I can just get through these early years of elementary school, then I can minister to others.

the anger we reveal in the middle of trial says more about us than it does about the trial.

We tend to believe that the sin that surrounds us is more dangerous than the sin that resides inside us.

much of the bad communication, needless conflict, and constant frustration stem from our responses to the ways the other person is different from us.

More than that, we invite you to look at your words through the lens of Scripture.

We are to be in the world, though not of it. Often Christians have evaded the challenge of this call by defining their role as salt in negative terms. They have simply denounced bad things in the culture and been against things rather than for them.

My words must be shaped by your need. An ambassador's words always address the person's true need of the moment.

for a Christian whose hope is in an invisible God, seeing the unseen is essential. 24

Or do you move into conflict with a God-centered perspective?

Our typical response to conflict is to point the finger at our opponent.

You see, this is what you always do. I come to you and you turn the table on me. You are so good at making other people feel guilty for your failures!

Evaluate your implementation.