Quotes About Perspective

Always try to see yourself through God's eyes.

If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.

Jonah saw God's will as punishment. Jesus saw God's will as nourishment.

Why did God invent economists? To make weathermen feel good about themselves.

Art is an aspect of God and there is only one God, but different people see Him in different ways. Though He is always the same He doesn't always look the same.

Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.

Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.

As a Christian, instead of concentrating on how you feel, focus on what you know to be truth from the Word of God.

But for us to assume that God could not act in other ways is, I think, to put God in an awfully small box.

For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept... Whenever people bring up feminism, I'm like, god. I'm just not really that interested.

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!

... God gave you just one mouth but He gave you two ears, so you should listen twice as much as you speak

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false.

God is bigger than the Christian faith.

I knew I couldn't believe in God, because I was fundamentally Hellenic in my outlook.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him.

Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol.

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Sometimes you have to hold tight to what God has already said because you can get so clouded over emotionally that you can no longer rely on what feels right or wrong.

None of us are going to have perfect lives. Our own vision of what we think is good maybe different from what He [God] thinks. And we forget that. We think we know what's best and we don't.