Quotes About Perspective

I was a tree in a story about a forest, the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you'd be surprised how much pleasure you get from material possessions. And when you stop expecting God to end all your troubles, you'd be surprised how much you like spending time with God.

Anybody who wants to get their way says that Jesus supports their view. But that isn't Jesus' fault.

Every human being wakes up each morning and sees the world through the lens of a protagonist. The world revolves around us, regardless of how altruistic, generous, and selfless a person we may be.

I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.

finished. If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died. But my uncle died too soon. The next day, when I was walking with

And that's the first time I realized that the idea a character is what he does makes as much sense in life as it does in the movies. I thought about my friend's story from his wife's perspective. She only knows what he says and what he does, not what he thinks and what he feels. I'm sure his wife picked up on his newfound enthusiasm, but it did help me realize the stories we tell ourselves are very different from the stories we tell the world.

Your problem is not that God is not fulfilling, your problem is that you are spoiled.

Sooner or later you just figure out there are some guys who don't believe in God and they can prove He doesn't exist, and some other guys who do believe in God and they can prove He does exist, and the argument stopped being about God a long time ago and now it's about who is smarter, and honestly I don't care. I don't believe I will ever walk away from God for intellectual reasons. Who knows anything anyway?

Victor Frankl whispered in my ear all the same. He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.

Six billion people live in this world, and I can only muster thoughts for one. Me.

Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me.

I was talking to a homeless man at the laundry mat recently, and he said that when we reduce Christian spirituality to math we defile the Holy. I thought that was very beautiful and comforting because I have never been good at math.

G. K. Chesterton says chess players go crazy, not poets. I think he is right.

It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen.

Pain can serve a purpose if we cause it to. Again, while we do not have power over all that happens in the world, we do have power over our perspective. We can choose to take unfair and undue pain and cause it to serve our own story so that we become better. So that we transform.

Advertisers personify the problems their customers face in order to capture their imagination and give their frustrations a focal point.

1.  Talk about a problem.        2.  Describe a product you offer that solves this problem.        3.  Describe what life can look like for the reader

we think we are the same person, but we aren't. "People get stuck, thinking they are one kind of person, but they aren't.

Great testimonials give future customers the gift of going second.

If it was a good movie, the experience felt like somebody was resetting a compass in my brain so I could feel what was important in life and what wasn't.

In this section of your website, you're going to clearly express empathy and demonstrate authority (or competency).

But it's a good trade, because as soon as you point toward a horizon, life no longer feels meaningless.

Quienes se dan cuenta de que la historia épica de la vida, en realidad, no trata de ellos mismos sino de quienes les rodean, acaban ganando.