Quotes About Perspective

God's ways cannot be fully explained, for He sees the big picture while we only see a small slice.

I am old enough to know something of the world and young enough to hope for something better.

I knew the Almighty could and would do what He wished, when He wished to do it. Yet, pragmatic woman that I was, I wished to know His reasons. Actually, I longed for more than that. I wished God would listen to my advice and adjust His will to match mine.

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

We travel to see the world in new ways, to feel ourselves fully in the world, immersed in the experience of discovery.

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.

Frank Sheed once said, "The secular novelist sees what is visible; the Christian novelist sees what is there.

Reductionism is like a kid who argues that whatever does not fit into his toy box is not a toy.

Biblical worldview'. The term means literally a 'view of the world', a biblically informed perspective on all of reality. A worldview is like a mental map that tells you how to navigate the world effectively. It is the imprint of God's objective truth on our inner life.

Many of us don't even know what it means to have a Christian perspective on our work. Oh, we know that being a Christian means being ethical on the job- as Saly put it, "no lying and cheating." But the work itself is typically defined in secular terms as bringing home a paycheck, climbing the career ladder, building a professional reputation.

to define what is rational solely by whether it fits the tenets of your own worldview is an invalid move because it rules out all other truth claims by definition. You do not even have to investigate the evidence. A serious search for truth does not start by stacking the deck.

Stories and images can be powerful means for conveying ideas. Every time we read a book or watch a movie, we enter into an imaginative

Postmodernism started out seeking to unmask the implicit imperialism of modernist worldviews. But it has itself become imperialist, insisting that postmodernists alone have the ability to see through everyone else's underlying interests and motives—to deconstruct and debunk them.

postmodernists are just as concerned about objective truth as anyone else. Dallas Willard comments, "I have noticed that the most emphatic of Postmodernists turn coldly modern when discussing their fringe benefits or other matters that make a great difference to their practical life." 35 If we use the metaphor that a worldview is a mental map, postmodernists keep walking off their map. It is too small to account for the full geography of who they are.

You can be utterly confident that any non-biblical worldview will be too "small" to account for all of reality.

liberals have no compelling truth, no 'good news,' to proclaim.

Learning critical thinking is important not only for speaking to people outside the church but also for educating people on the inside

A worldview can be replaced only by another worldview.

Hegel taught that no idea is true in an absolute or timeless sense.

if everything is historically relative, then so is the idea of historicism itself.

It urges us to set our minds "on things that are on earth," not on things above (Col. 3:2).

We must reject the presumption that holding Christian beliefs disqualifies us as "biased," while the philosophical naturalists get a free pass by presenting their position as "unbiased" and "rational." Most of all, we need to liberate Christianity from the two-story division that has reduced it to an upper-story private experience, and learn how to restore it to the status of objective truth.

People who have the power to control the "'official' definitions of reality" are in a position to impose their own private worldview across an entire society.