Quotes About Perspective

The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.

I am high in the sky, and still I do not see the face of god.

We don't realise how much the world has affected us. We put God in the background.

We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.

I don't want people to think I believe in God.

I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

We are looked upon by God as though we were in eternity; God dwells in eternity, and does not view things as we do.

If god had meant us to use the metric system he would have given us ten finger and ten toes.

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

Perhaps we are all too small-minded to glimpse creation, even out little corner of it.

The most important thing you think is what you think about God.

A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.

We often try to put God in a box. The God who fits in our boxes isn't the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I never understood retirement. What is the attraction of retirement? I go down there to Florida and look around and I said, my God, who wants this? Not me.

Clients have no trouble paying $5,800 for an hour in a Gulfstream corporate jet or $425 for a month of parking. But God forbid they spend $3 per on a glossy annual report.

Somewhere a woman is praying her toddler wins a beauty pageant. I say this because sometimes people wonder why God lets tornadoes happen.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

Get honest with God, and your focus will shift from just seeing your problems - no matter how overwhelming they seem - to the grace of God.

One who views thing as they are in reality, and not as they are said or thought to be, is truly wise, taught by God rather than by other persons

I think there are times when I believe God welcomes the circus into our lives to give us an opportunity to show that there's another way to live and respond to things.

It is the belief and not the god that counts.

In God's economy, vision should move from the fringes to the middle.

I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs my own.