2,376 Quotes About Perspective

We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed.

Until you've been washed ashore you can't know how all encompassing the sea has become.

As missional leaders we need to see God as:Bigger than the problems we endure.Bigger than the pressures we experience.Bigger than the people who criticize us.Bigger than the pain we suffer.Bigger than the praise we receive.Bigger than the pride in our hearts.

Success is never a place but a perspective.

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

Scatter the names of all those who have ever lived over the surface of the knowable cosmos, and it would remain, for all purposes, as unnamed as it was before the small, anomalous flicker of human life appeared on this small, wildly atypical planet.

It's not how I take tragic news but how I make tragic views that unscrews me.

After every voyage, we bring with us renewed mind, refreshed soul and new viewpoints on life.

Distinguish between getting lost and losing your way. The first is a shift in direction. The second is the absence of perspective. Cultivate perspective and you will be able to steer home.