Quotes About Perspective

Sabbath is not so much about a day off as it is a "day up"—a day to remember that He is God and we are not.

Worship puts God in focus. When the Almighty is in view, our giant's power over our thinking begins to flicker and fade.

Worship is simply a shift of attention that allows us to see God better. Worship is like corrective lenses for our souls, bringing God clearer into view. That's important for all of us, especially when life goes off the rails. Worship puts God in focus. When the Almighty is in view, our giant's power over our thinking begins to flicker and fade.

Learning to let God help you keep your cool during the little stuff makes it easier to keep your cool when the big things come around.

Evil people do tend to think they're the heroes of their own stories,

the reason God tells us not to judge is that we do not know the raw material that other people are struggling with.

No longer do our beliefs point back to a divine law code or an essential, in-built sense of good and evil; they exist only and solely in the eye of the beholder.

There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of.

To philosophise with open eyes is to philosophise in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.

Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.

Çünkü ???k deÄŸerlidir, ama bedelini oyulan iki gözümle ödeyeceksem hiçbir deÄŸeri kalmaz.

They have understood of others' lives what they were capable of understanding. But even if it were like that, it would be otherwise.

Tout ce qui n'est pas moi est incompréhensible.

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

The crowd has a way of being right.

In that moment I think I learned the real tragedy of living too long. It is not losing one's health or one's memory or even one's mind; it is losing one's dignity.

a lifetime's education was not the equivalent of a minute of Armageddon.

I had come to a new way of thinking about time. It's not the hard and fixed thing we imagine it to be, no, it's something soft and pleated, and under extreme pressure, it folds

We're trying to show that we're not a little bit of England in America, but a place for Americans to gain a better perspective on their own history.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.

When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.

When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.'