Quotes About Perspective

If you don't know what to be thankful for, be thankful for all the troubles you haven't had yet.

Thank God for your life today. For your health, your family, or your home. Many people don't have these things and are praying for what you take for granted.

If you never thank God after every smile, then you have no right to blame him for every tear.

Learn to appreciate things before you end up losing them.

Happiness comes when we stop complaining about the trouble. And say thanks to GOD for the trouble we don't have.

One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful. We let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.

I was the best man at the wedding. If I'm the best man, why is she marrying him?

Getting married for sex is like buying a 747 for the free peanuts.

Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.

Why doesn't it matter?" Clay shrugged. " 'Cuz we're getting married right now, whether you understood what I wanted or not.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

I don't reckon men are supposed to think," Sally said philosophically, as the pile of hemp rope grew at her feet. "That's why God gave 'em big muscles." Mandy tilted her head sideways for a second. "Makes as much sense as anything else." Sophie nodded. "Men do the lifting and women do the thinking. That sounds fair. I suppose God could have planned it that way.

Sometimes the villain becomes a victim

As we had no electricity we also had no "idiot box" and therefore felt no envy. Except

You got to look at things with the eye in your heart, not with the eye in your head. —Lame Deer

You got to look at things with the eye in your heart, not with the eye in your head.

Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.

Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.

When we think of other people as our center and fulfillment, we live frustrated lives.

The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.