Quotes About Perspective

Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

However, the Word gives us a different perspective. Paul wrote, "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable" (2 Timothy 3:16), and this includes the salutations and benedictions of the epistles. I am convinced they are not superficial formalities. They were inspired by the Holy Spirit to impart powerful spiritual blessing to all who read them.

Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.

It reveals that people are confusing." Rovender corrected her. "Not Confusing. Complex.

A full stomach allows the brain to be hungry for common sense.

I feel so...tiny." Eva took in the entire starlit expanse. "So...insignificant." "Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.

If all you see is what you see, you will never see all that there is to be seen. Since

When we allow our faith to be defined by our feelings, we will be confused. Faith must have an objective standard by which it is defined—truth. In fact, when faith operates by an objective standard of truth, it will eventually dictate our emotions rather than the reverse.

Don't say we're not right for each other because the way I see it, we might not be right for anyone else...

Size isn't important', he quipped. I have never adhered to this view. As far as I'm concerned, people who say size isn't important, aren't big enough to admit that they're wrong

Terrific idea. Two days of advice on how to cope with married life from a body of people who have never been married, and don't indulge in any sexual activity. (Now don't scoff - it's true, they don't.)

History was not simply a catalogue of the dead and buried and benighted, but rather a vast new world to be pioneered; ...if you approached the past generously, so to speak—its people as humans, not facts, as modern in their time as we were in ours, who thought and felt as we do, the dead would live again, our equals, not our old-fashioned, hopelessly unenlightened, and backward inferiors. Humanity, to be fully known, had to be seen as changeless as well as ever changing.

You're not playing the game,' Mary Landon said. 'I told you about me. You're just telling me about your family.' The statement surprised Chee. One defined himself by his family. How else? And then it occurred to him that white people didn't. They identified themselves by what they had done as individuals.

I'm remembering something else, too. That remark you made to me about Shakespeare. I asked the woman at the library about Othello, and she got me a copy. He was just about as stupid as me. But with me, I didn't have someone egging me on. I did it to myself. Looking for a treasure when I already had one.

What was it about white men that caused them to plant grass in places where grass couldn't possibly grow without them fiddling with it all the time?

I think from where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

Don't think a man don't care about one goat because he's got a thousand of 'em," Hosteen Nakai would say. "He's got a thousand because he cares more about goats than he cares about his relatives.

By whiteman's standards, Leaphorn thought, Bowlegs had a net worth of maybe one hundred dollars. The white world's measure of his life. And what would the Navajo measure be? The Dinee made a harder demand—that man find his place in the harmony of things.

As Zen practitioners might say. two people looking at the same mountain are not seeing the same mountain, and so poetic "worldliness" can take an infinite number of versions: the sensibility of an individual artist is as distinct as a fingerprint.

They say that about 3 percent of the people on Earth live in bliss. So what the hell are the other 97 percent doing?

This may sound like a huge task, but it's not. It's simply a matter of learning to recognize the things that don't matter so that you can let them go.

Cook," the historian Bernard Smith speculates, "increasingly realised that wherever he went he was spreading the curses much more liberally than the benefits of European civilization.

A vale of humility between two mountains of conceit.