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Quotes About Perspective

They tell me that all men are equal in God's eyes, this player (Messi) makes you seriously think about those words.
~ Ray Hudson
In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.
~ Charles Spurgeon
We're important, but not essential; valuable, but not indispensable. We have a part in the play, but we are not the main act. A song to sing, but we are not the featured voice. God is.
~ Max Lucado
To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
~ Heraclitus
Do not measure God's mind by your own.
~ George MacDonald
True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.
~ Tryon Edwards
The mind of the many is not the mind of God.
~ George MacDonald
It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.
~ Martin Luther
You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.
~ Charles Marion Russell
God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
Every generation is equidistant from God.
~ Leopold von Ranke
The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.
~ Brother Lawrence
When you care more about what others think of you than what God knows about you, you've lost perspective on what really matters.
~ Christine Caine
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
~ St. Jerome
There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.
~ James K. Morrow
I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God.
~ Charles Darwin
Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.
~ Keanu Reeves
If only we could see the value of one soul like God does.
~ George Verwer
The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Sometimes the gifts of God aren't wrapped as we expect.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
Often, without being at all aware of it, men judge themselves, not by God's rule, but by their own.
~ Charles Grandison Finney
Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.
~ Peter Bichsel
God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.
~ C.J. Langenhoven
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel