Quotes About Perspective

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Vision over visibility

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

Only when awe of God rules your heart will you be able to keep the pleasures of the material world in their proper place.

Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach to yourself the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.

We all tend to look for life horizontally when the reality is that we will only ever find life vertically.

Belief in eternity can clarify your values and renew your hope.

If awesome things in creation become your god, the God who created those things will not own your awe. Horizontal awe is meant to do one thing: stimulate vertical

Whatever sits on the other side of your "if-only" is where you are looking for life, peace, joy, hope, and lasting contentment of heart.

The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.

The kingdom of self tends to be more focused on what the hands can touch than what the heart should embrace.

It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence,

If praise is celebrating God's awesome glory, then complaint is antipraise.

you never just suffer the thing that you're suffering, but you always also suffer the way that you're suffering that thing.

Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.

If you put yourself in the center of your world, you will find plenty of things to complain about.

I want to get you to think about and finally find comfort in the fact that our experience of suffering is never just physical. The pain that stops us in our tracks, that makes us want to pull the covers over our head and not face the day, and at moments makes us wish that we could die, is never just physical.

Envy tempts you to crave what is temporary while you devalue what is eternal. This never leads you anywhere good.

In the busyness and self-centeredness of our lives, we sadly forget how much our lives have been blessed by and radically redirected by mercy.

3. We replace vertical awe with horizontal addiction.

because we are self-focused, we tend to be scorekeepers, constantly comparing our piles of stuff to the piles of others. It's a life of discontentment and envy. Envy is always selfish.

It was humbling to admit that I wasn't living the simple life because I was spiritually committed to it. I was living the simple life because I was poor.

Word problems are often interpretation problems. We do not say the right thing because we do not believe the right thing.