God's Perspective Quotes

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing.

Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God's sight.

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

Only God knows hearts, and so only He can say, in truth, “I know how you feel.”

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.

God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.

That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.

We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.

Always pull back-and see how silly we must look to God.

We must remember throughout our lives that in God's sight there are no little people and no little places. Only one thing is important: to be consecrated persons in God's place for us, at each moment.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.

Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.

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.

What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Time is but a shadow, a dream; already God sees us in glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this thought helps my soul! I understand then why He lets us suffer.

... our little things are all big to God's love; our big things are all small to His power.

We may say simply that in the sight of God we are judged not so much by what we do as by our reasons for doing it.

People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is to be the object of our devotion, our adoration, and our reverence.

I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox.

To God, our journey is JUST as important as our destination!

Never hesitate to take what you think are small things to God; after all, EVERYTHING is small to God.

The essence of wisdom, from a practical standpoint, is pausing long enough to look at our lives-invitations, opportunities, relationships-from God's perspective. And then acting on it

When the Spirit of God comes into us, He wants to be Himself in us. He wants His energy to be poured through us. He wants His wisdom to be deposited in our hearts. He wants His instinct and nature to be evident and obvious in you.He wants us to see what He is looking at, to feel what He feels, to know what He knows, to work with His projects, see life the way He sees it, get His ideas and know His opinion about yourself and others.

Consequently, Christian meditation is entirely trinitarian and at the same time entirely human. In order to find God, no one need reject being human personally or socially, but in order to find God all must see the world and themselves in the Holy Spirit as they are in God's sight.