Quotes About Perspective

It is sad how many people constantly live in the schizophrenic craziness of eternity amnesia. We were created to live in a forever relationship with a forever God forever. We were designed to live based on a long view of life. We were made to live with one eye on now and one eye on eternity. You and I simply cannot live as we were put together to live without forever.

the identity we assign to ourselves shapes and defines the way that we live our lives.

Here's the real-life, street-level issue: 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 be.

if your faith is based on your ability to fully understand your past, present, and future, then your moments of confusion will become moments of weakening faith.

Everything we say and do, everything we commit ourselves to, and every situation, location, and relationship we experience is experienced between the already and the not yet. You will never understand the things you face every day until you understand that you live in the middle. Everything in your life is shaped by what the middle is like.

truth like this is revelation that completely changes the posture of my life.

Todos necesitamos a alguien que nos recuerde que la vida no se define por nuestro dolor, sino por nuestra unión con Cristo.

La esperanza ya ha venido y ha traído consigo riquezas y poder para ti. Como puedes ver, no tienes un problema de esperanza; tienes un problema de visión, pero la gracia te ilumina.

Faith is something that you do with your life. True biblical faith doesn't stop with thought; it radically rearranges the way that you approach everything in your life.

Physical suffering exposes the delusion of personal autonomy and self-sufficiency

You have only two choices: an "on earth" way of thinking that is all about this right here, right now physical moment, or an "above" way of thinking that looks at life from the vantage point of the grand redemptive story and, more specifically, from the perspective of the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Self-righteousness means you don't see yourself or the other person with accuracy. It means you see his or her speck as a log and your log as a speck. So you are condemning of him or her and excusing of yourself. You treat the other person with judgment while you respond to yourself with patience.

When I opt for a me-centered "more," what I actually get is always much, much less.

When you remember mercy, complaining gives way to gratitude and self-focused desire gives way to worship.

when you blame other people for your circumstances or for the wrongs that you do, you are, in fact, blaming God. You are saying that God didn't give you what you needed to be what he has called you to be and to do what he has called you to do.

Here is the spiritual reality that you need to know, understand, and live in light of—if 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.

It's so easy to load life onto your shoulders and be more motivated by low-grade anxiety than by divine awe.

The scary deception of sin is that, at the point of sinning, sin doesn't look all that sinful.

there's no such things as a purely horizontal complaint. If I am complaining about the insensitivity of my physician, the lack of attention I am getting from my pastor, and the fact that my friends lack sympathy and understanding, I'm not just complaining about those people but also about the God who ordained all of them to be in my life.

Lo que gobierne mi corazón moldeará la manera en que reaccione ante los momentos más tristes y más felices de la vida.

He reminds us not to live for the treasures of the moment:

If eternity is the plan, then it makes no sense to shrink your living down to the needs and wants of this little moment.

So much of our disappointment in relationships is not because we have an unrealistic view of others, but because we have a distorted view of ourselves.

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