Quotes About Perspective

You know why the road curves as you're driving along? It curves because if God showed us the distance from where we are to where we're going, we'd think it was too far.

If you're going to believe in a God, then you also have to equally believe that there's a flip side to this.

God has not given us Bible prophecy to Scare us but to Prepare us.

I'm going to try to take a loving look at the situation and do what God gave me the ability to do, and He'll bless it.

God is like a shitty girlfriend.

Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.

What if I have it all upside down? What if I'm the one who knows nothing of God, and the people in the world are actually interceding on my behalf with their ordinary daily struggles

I wouldn't presume to be God's point of view.

God first, family second, career third.

I know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but I take it for granted. God knows, they're all on television.

Are science and religion compatible? It's like, are science and plumbing compatible? They're just two different things.

God has given us control over one thing in our lives - our thoughts.

How do I define God? I don't.... People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as they like. Personally, I don't.

Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand.

For the Christian, every tragedy is ultimately a blessing, or God is a liar.

What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it looks at itself with our eyes.

Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.

Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

You can't find God before an altar if that is the only place you look for him.

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.