Quotes About Perspective

Joy is not getting what you want. It's fully appreciating what you have. And it starts with the basics, like water.

The Talmud teaches that there are four kinds of people in the world. The first person says, What's yours is mine. The second person says, What's yours is yours. The third person says, What's mine is mine. And the fourth person says, What's mine is yours. Which one are you?

Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are. Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.

The paradigm shift happens when we come to terms with the fact that the world doesn't revolve around us.

When we are born into this world, the world revolves around us. We're spoon-fed on the front end and diaper-changed on the back end. It's as if the entire world exists to meet our every need. And that's fine if you are a two-month-old baby. If you're twenty-two, it's a problem! Newsflash:

We should stop asking God to get us out of difficult circumstances and start asking Him what He wants us to get out of those difficult circumstances

Perdemos perspectiva cuando perdemos de vista las promesas de Dios.

God, how long is a million years to you?" God said, "A million years is like a second." Then the man asked, "How much is a million dollars to you?" God said, "A million dollars is like a penny." The man smiled and said, "Could you spare a penny?" God smiled back and said, "Sure, just wait a second.

Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music.

If you let your circumstances define the way you see God, you are a prisoner of perspective. Or worse, a prisoner of your past mistakes! But if you let God define the way you see your circumstances, you are a prisoner of hope.

I'm willing to die on, but there are some I'm not willing to die on. I won't engage in the combat of criticism. It is sideways energy, and it doesn't have a redemptive purpose. I overlook the offense so I can keep playing offense.

We usually hear what we want to hear and turn a deaf ear to everything else. But remember the package deal? If we don't listen to everything God has to say, we eventually won't hear anything He has to say. And we probably need to hear most what we want to hear least. But this I know for sure: His tone of voice is always loving. Sometimes it's tough love in the form of rebuke or discipline, but it's loving, nonetheless.

we tend to overestimate what we can accomplish in a year.

If you're looking for an excuse, you'll always find one. If you're looking for an opportunity, you'll always find one.

And it's often what we want to hear least that we need to hear most. Trust me, though, you want to hear what He has to say.

we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos. G.K. CHESTERTON

G. K. Chesterton said that his goal in life was to take nothing for granted—not a sunrise, not a smile, not a flower, nothing. That is a truly wonderful approach to life. Don't take anything for granted. Truly appreciate every minute that you have to live. My near-death experience has helped me be better at that. If I hadn't almost died, I wouldn't have figured out how to live.

From the secular to the sacred, we can focus on ourselves or others.

truth is, part of me is every age. I'm a three-year-old, I'm a five-year-old, I'm a thirty-seven-year-old, I'm a fifty-year-old. I've been through all of them, and I know what it's like. I delight in being a child when it's appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it's appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.23

What do you do when God's logic doesn't line up with yours? When the will of God doesn't add up? When you think you know better or know more than God?

Our biggest problem is our small view of God.

each of us has an explanatory style... And our explanation is more important than the experience itself. In the words of Aldous Huxley, "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

One of two things happens over time. Either your theology will conform to your reality, and your expectations will get smaller and smaller until you can hardly believe God for anything. Or your reality will conform to your theology, and your expectations will get bigger and bigger until you can believe God for absolutely everything!