Quotes About Perspective

When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.

I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.

Africa is God's country, and He can have it.

Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

I don't see the big picture. I don't have a clue. But I know God does. I'm going to declare that, even if I don't feel it right now.

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don't believe in, we quickly discover that I don't believe in that god, either.

Humility is not simply feeling small and useless - like an inferiority complex. It is sensing how great and glorious God is, and seeing myself in that light.

Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.

I think Balanchine and Robbins talk to God and when I call, he's out to lunch.

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

Humility begins with seeing who God is, seeing yourself compared to God, and then seeing yourself as God sees you.

Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.

Too often we try to use God to change our circumstance, when God is trying to use our circumstance to change us.

I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the worldly appear insane, foolish, misled, blind.

The more you know, the more you see

I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox.

We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.

We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.

What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter.