Quotes About Perspective

You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance.

Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?

Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!

I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.

It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.

Nothing like a little chest pain to restore your faith.

For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to see it because I'm in it.

God, America is a country predicated on listening to everybody. When did we stop listening to one another?

No one's laughing at God -We're all laughing with God.

Who are we to say that that was an odd way to do it? I don't think that it is God's purpose to make his intention absolutely obvious to us.

From my perspective, God cannot be completely contained within nature, and therefore God's existence is outside of science's ability to really weigh in.

I can deal with fighting in the arena in Hell, but laundry and dishes put the fear of God in me.

When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.

God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.

The way God teaches us to live by faith is He takes away our feelings.

I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to understand the Internet. I don't have the brain capacity.

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

So I said to myself, "There but for the grace of God go I," only to realize I was looking in a mirror and had seriously overestimated the grace of God.

What we need to do from God's perspective is that we need to reach out and understand each other.

The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

You need never fear feeling too good about God.

I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We're not affiliated with any organisation, and I have no religious education of any kind, but I definitely have my own kind of ideas about it.

God rewards according to the mannerin which He is conceived or approached.

We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.