Quotes About Perspective

In a moment, your thoughts can seem more important than they actually are. In a moment, your emotions can seem more reliable than they really are. In a moment, your needs can seem more essential than they truly are.

the more you focus on your own neediness, the more your desires will be christened as needs.

You can lose it all, but nothing can take life from you, because what defines life is simply not for the taking.

Whatever functionally rules your heart will then shape the way you see life and your desires, and it will control your words and behavior.

when you forget the grace that you've been given, it becomes very easy to respond to the people around you with nongrace.

We are all capable of fighting for what has little value while forgetting things of transcendent value.

you love the gifts and not the Giver, your heart will never be satisfied, but if you love the Giver, your heart will be content and you will be able to enjoy his gifts while keeping them in their proper place.

All the things that disappoint you now are to remind you that this is not all there is

The appropriateness of my responses to others is directly related to the accuracy of my view of myself, and for that there is grace too.

if you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never

The call is to do theology in loving community with other people. Truth not spoken in love ceases to be true because it's bent and twisted by other human agendas.

Their disappointed thinking had a fatal flaw in it. What they saw as being in the way of God's plan was actually part of his plan; what caused their faith to weaken was actually God's tool to build their faith.

How often do you see people as obstacles to ministry rather than the objects of it?

When you have one eye on eternity, this present physical world looks entirely different.

Perhaps in ways that you have never come close to considering, your dissatisfaction is an awe problem.

If you put too many things in your need category, you will end up frustrated with life, hurt by others, and doubting God's goodness.

We complain so much not because we have horizontal problems but because we have a vertical problem.

They were convinced that they had made the mistake of marrying a messed-up person; they were convinced that the other had made them do things they would not otherwise have done; and they were convinced that they had no power to make the other change, although they had tried.

There is no need to be paralyzed by the opinions of another. God gives you the ultimate tool of self-assessment, the mirror of his Word.

God loves too much to be willing to forsake his glorious kingdom of grace for your self-absorbed little kingdom of one.

Nuestros pensamientos condicionan nuestras emociones, nuestro sentido de identidad, nuestro punto de vista de los demás, nuestra agenda para la solución de nuestros problemas, y nuestra disposición para recibir consejo de otros.

It is tempting to forget that there is an eternity or to think that it doesn't make any difference in the present. Paul says just the opposite to the Corinthians; that if you only have Christ in this life, you are a person to be pitied. Eternity is the only thing that can give you a reason to continue.

El Dios eterno te permite disfrutar de Su gracia eterna para que puedas vivir con una perspectiva eterna.

Your King rules over everything that would discourage and disappoint you, and he rules for your good and his glory. What is out of your control is under his rule.