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Quotes About Perspective

How a woman thinks is often how she lives.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
I'm a Helian, and you're an Arcan. We're just made that way. I don't think we would ever be able to really understand each other.
~ Heather James, Fire
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
~ Oswald Chambers
Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.
~ Shams Tabrizi
When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
~ Philip Yancey
Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
~ John Ortberg
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
~ Jean Ingelow
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
~ Teresa of Avila
If God answered all of your prayers, would the world look different or just your life?
~ Dave Willis
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.
~ R. C. Sproul
The biggest enemy to prayer is praying for something you already have.
~ Bill Johnson
Prayer might not change things, but it will change my perspective of things. Prayer might not change the past, but inevitably, it changes the present.
~ Margaret Feinberg
Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.
~ Craig Groeschel
God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.
~ Lou Holtz
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
~ Teresa of Avila
Thank God for unanswered prayers.
~ Garth Brooks
The purpose of prayer is not to change God's mind, which always knows your wholeness and your deservingness. The purpose of prayer is to change your mind so you can see through the eyes of God.
~ Alan Cohen
Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision.
~ Tom Brewster
Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.
~ Philip Yancey
If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.
~ William Temple
I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.
~ Richard Cecil
Our prayer is not simply, 'Dear God, please send me a better job,' but, 'Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.
~ Marianne Williamson
If he really wanted to make it a prayer for peace he should have listened to both sides of the story and reflected reality, rather than serving the Zionist side alone.
~ Mohammed Daoud Khan