Quotes About Perspective

When you feed negativity on the inside, it's negativity that you'll exude on the outside.

Imagine how differently you might approach each day by simply stating: God is good. God is good to me. God is good at being God. And today is yet another page in our great love story. Nothing that happens to you today will change that or even alter it in the slightest way.

The space between our expectations and our reality is a fertile field, and it's the perfect place to grow a bumper crop of disappointment.

We are supposed to maximize God, which keeps our weaknesses in perspective.

People can't fix from the outside a perspective that needs to be rewired on the inside. Only the Lord can do that.

How I long never to diminish God by loving lesser things. Rather, I want to make much of God by diminishing lesser things. May I make less of me, less of this world, less of the temporary…so that I may be a vessel more full of God, more full of eternal perspectives, more full of His everlasting!

Tackle issues not people. Am I trying to prove my point or improve the relationship?

God not only wants us to rely on Him for our daily portion but He also demands we keep first place in our lives reserved for Him. It's easy to get so consumed with our promised land that we forget the promise Maker.

sometimes when you can't find your footing with your own faith, you just have to go stand on someone else's for a while.

The short time we actually focus on today's journey is often wasted on complaining, grumbling, wishing to be in a different place, or simply and mindlessly going through the motions of life.

Please see how dangerous this assumption was. She got alone with her own thoughts and assumptions. And it led her to doubt God. And take control to get what she wanted. What she thought was best.

Some will live their whole lives missing the chance to see all the good God has placed around them just for them. Partly because the hard stuff has demanded so much of their attention. And the seeming permanence of some of the heartbreak has stolen their affection for life.

If this is the worst thing that happens to me today, it's still a pretty good day.

And what we think about can consume us if

seeking what's fair never cracked the world open to reveal the beautiful reality of a Jesus-loving woman.

I'm completely sane except when I'm the opposite of that.

How hard something is often depends on your vantage point.

But no matter, because that's about the time Jesus will remind us that thighs aren't something we'll ever think about in eternity. And all God's girls say

God's goodness by how my life felt at any given time.

It's Good to Ask the "What" Questions but Less Helpful to Ask "Why

Each morning my mind is like a dry sponge. Whatever I soak up first is what I'll be most saturated with each day. And what I'm most saturated with each day is what I'll leak out on others when life's tough stuff squeezes me.

What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity.

The numbers hadn't changed yet, but my heart had.

I have discovered that if I can change the way I think about something, I can change the way I react to it. If I change the way I react, I can change the way I define myself as a mother.