When one meets another brother or sister from a different culture, he or she finds deep communion and a
joint eternal perspective not always shared by members of one's own culture.
It's God's way not just of providing us with margin but of providing us with a spiritual and
eternal perspective on our lives.
In the words of Randy Alcorn, author and director
of Eternal Perspective Ministries, «We should be grateful when God grants us health, provisions, and delightful surprises.
Without eternal perspectives and without the sense of our individual immortal value — the great Tocqueville reminded us — the sheer materialism and dreck of democracy and capitalism would wear us down to mean and petty creatures.
«While we will not have the opportunity to watch her grow up and become the amazing woman we know she would become, we are keeping
an eternal perspective,» her family said.
derp If there is no God it really does not matter what you do or say from
an eternal perspective.
The New Testament tells us to focus on eyes on Jesus (Heb 12:2); and to have
that eternal perspective where we know that this world is not our home and that all we do should be done in the light of eternity.
I guess you could call
it an eternal perspective.
Of course I picked extreme positions and understand most fall somewhere between these poles but the point is that someone's
eternal perspective and belief in how God does or doesn't have expectations for his creation will affect his / her politics.
One essential element to gaining confidence is having
an eternal perspective, which helps us set priorities and know what is important in life.
Think with
an eternal perspective that considers the significance of your attitudes and choices.
If you keep
an eternal perspective on your daily activities, you will realize don't matter as much as you think.
I think we should always have
that eternal perspective which will encourage us to lay up treasures in heaven (which has nothing to with money) rather than on earth where they will decay.
He can zoom our and view us from
an eternal perspective, i.e. he can look at us from beyond time and space, seeing the end from the beginning.
That eternal perspective is SO important.
Asking God to give
me an eternal perspective really pushed politics off the table as He sets a feast before me in the presence of my fears.
So God sits outside of time and space, having created same, with
an eternal perspective.
It immediately gives everything in this world
an eternal perspective.
St. Vincent de Paul says, «We can only be truly Incarnational when we have
an eternal perspective about the whole creation».
You have enough to be saved.That's
an eternal perspective.
But I have to look at my job as a parent from what I like to call
an eternal perspective.
Lorna Jane Cook writes about our earthly tragedies from
an eternal perspective in a poignant yet matter - of - fact way.
«While we will not have the opportunity to watch her grow up and become the amazing woman we know she would become, we are keeping
an eternal perspective,» the family said, according to the newspaper.
«We will not have the opportunity to watch her grow up and become the amazing woman we know she would become, but we are keeping
an eternal perspective.»
But when you pan out further... wider... to
the eternal perspective, those little things aren't going to matter one bit.
People are what's important in this world & I'm really starting to realize that things are so temporary in
the eternal perspective.
Ask for
His eternal perspective in the struggles and He will reveal Himself to you.