2,376 Quotes About Perspective

Kindness and pain, joy and suffering are twins in this fallen world.

Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind.

In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. He may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stance as many hands high according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.

Actions do not need to be changed; just change your vision.

When we forgive we are telling God that we have faith in him to fight our injustices. It might not seem possible when you are standing in a storm, but when you take the high road you can see farther than you can now.

Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.

Institutions and cultures are not immortal. Humans, Christian and non-Christian, are. Compared to us, our country is a gnat.

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.