Quotes About Perspective

Colossians 1:16 tells us that everything was created FOR God... don't we live instead as though God is created for US, to do OUR bidding, to bless US, and to take care of OUR loved ones?

It's easier to be God than to see God.

Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.

Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

You are under-qualified for the job of God.

Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, "May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.

God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.

Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.

Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?

God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Are we as willing to go into debt for the work of God as we are for a vacation to Hawaii?

Years are not important, my dear.

I don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he'd take it away.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.