Quotes About Perspective

This is achieved more naturally when the doctor puts himself on the same level of his patients

Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.

customers like to feel that they are buying, not being sold.

It becomes easier for people to relate to us.

Show respect for the other person's opinions. Never say, 'You're wrong.

the Roman Empire, Marcus Aurelius, summed it up in eight words—eight words that can determine your destiny: "Our life is what our thoughts make it.

If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.

Margaret [Arlo] was once asked how she felt about her life over the past fifty years. The look in her eyes revealed that she understood the true question: How is it that you continued over fifty years to be as poor as you were at the beginning? ... 'I'm rich-poor,' she said. 'You see, I got my son. I got my Bible. That's all I need. I don't treasure nothin' on earth.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

We truly live at the mercy of our ideas; this is never more true than with our ideas about God.

And if you are already flying upside down and don't know it, your cleverness will do you little good.

G. K. Chesterton famously quipped, "There is only one unanswerable argument against Christianity: Christians.

We are required to "bet our life" that the visible world, while real, is not reality itself.

the situations in which we find ourselves are never as important as our responses to them, which come from our "spiritual" side.

I realize that I will either allow my view of evil to determine my view of God and will cut him down accordingly, or I will allow my view of God to determine my view of the evil and will elevate him accordingly, accepting that nothing is beyond his power for good.

Standing in the kingdom, we make responsible decisions in love, with assurance that how things turn out for us does not really matter that much because, in any case, we are in the kingdom of the heavens. In that kingdom nothing that can happen to us is "the end of the world.

It is setting aside our own ideas as supreme and our own will as ultimate, freeing us from the burden of having our own way and of being all-wise in our own eyes.

Preliminary 2: In a Mirror, Dimly

Indeed, all human troubles come from thinking of God wrongly, which then means, thinking about ourselves wrongly. God

Often a good starting point when trying to help those who do not believe in God or accept Christ as Lord is to get them to deal honestly with the question: Would I like for there to be a God? Or, would I like it if Jesus turned out to be Lord? This may help them realize the extent to which what they want to be the case is controlling their ability to see what is the case.

Now, Jesus himself was and is a joyous, creative person. He does not allow us to continue thinking of our Father who fills and overflows space as a morose and miserable monarch, a frustrated and petty parent, or a policeman on the prowl.

knowledge is the basis of belief, and, when it is, it gives the belief a very different bearing upon life.

It is one of the defects of an age with no true sense of its past to suppose that what is now is what has always been, and that anything else is either novel or wrong or both.

Develop the habit of seeing the world through God's eyes.