Quotes About Perspective

A thoughtless or uninformed theology grips and guides our life with just as great a force as does a thoughtful and informed one.

Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free.

The answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live

We often don't know our own stories because we doubt their existence, dismiss their importance, or we're distracted.

Godly despair cries out for perspective but allows the hollowness of loss to move the heart to seek God.

It seems many people operate on the principle that whatever happened to them is not abuse, but if it had happened to someone else, or if it had been a bit more extreme, then it would have been abusive.

The Christ in Paul's writings is a different character from the Jesus of the Gospels.

Perhaps Matthew was right, or perhaps Luke was right, but both could not have been right. (See Chapter 13 for the exact citations.)

the bible is not a reliable source of truth.

Sometimes, all you have to do is shift your perspective to see someone else's truth.

The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.

Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.

Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.

The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.

All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God… Never realizing that God is waiting for us.

Ah, yes Langdon said with a knowing smile. Who better than a bunch of celibate octogeneraians to tell the world how to have sex? Sinskey was liking the professor more and more every second.

Dialogue is always more important than consensus.

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

it is in hearing the voice of the devil that we can better appreciate the voice of god.

Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.

Napoleon once said, What is history, but a fable agreed upon? He smiled. By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

You can't save the world, so don't sacrifice your happiness trying.' 

Widespread acceptance of an idea is not proof if its validity. -Robert Langdon