Point of view Quote by David A. Powlison Download Open image ““Every time you get angry, you make your values and point of view explicit.”” — David A. Powlison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Point of view Time
“There's no point in getting angry. Anger makes you ask questiona. Anger sets up expectations and demands to know the truth. ” — Gayle Friesen Copy Share Image
“When you got angry, you know yourself that you got angry. That's enough” — Chatchawan Tangtrongpanich Copy Share Image
“If you cannot stop yourself from getting angry, then at least get angry about things that matters.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Anger is how we seek to create an illusion of control where we feel none.” — Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“But when people are angry, they tend to say things they do not mean... Anger is a very powerful feeling.” — Alexis Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I know now that I acted out of anger, and I learned my first real adult lesson: Anger is often followed by unintended consequences… — D. Love Copy Share Image
“Anger always involves projection of separation, which must ultimately be accepted as one's own responsibility, rather than being blamed on others.” — Foundation for Inner Peace Copy Share Image
“When people show you who they are when angry believe them,” — gugu innocentia mofokeng Copy Share Image
“No one can understand a person who isn’t willing to hold two opposites together. You can’t understand yourself without holding the creation and fall… — David A. Powlison Copy Share Image
“Here is the sweet paradox in how God works. He blesses those who admit that they need help: The poor in spirit are blessed (Matthew 5: 3). Sanity has a deep awareness, I need help. I can’t do life right on my own. Someone outside me must intervene. The sanity of honest humility finds mercy, life, peace, and strength. By… — David A. Powlison Copy Share
“Second, Jimmy lived in a universe that featured him. Everything was all about one all-important, all-offended being. Every scene in his film, every page of his book, every news story in his daily paper circled around Jimmy—but he was never an agent or cause of anything. Every person, event, place, and object existed only to the degree that it affected… — David A. Powlison Copy Share
“Motives are your core values and commitments, what you base your identity on.” — David A. Powlison Copy Share Image
“His mercy is not niceness. His mercy is not blanket acceptance of any and all. Mercy to us costs him—the blood of the Lamb. And mercy comes to us at the cost of our sins and pride. His kindness is an open invitation to turn to him in repentance and faith, to come to him in our need for mercies… — David A. Powlison Copy Share
“Mercy is an entirely different way of reacting to offenses, to things we think are wrong. Think about this: mercy is not a non-reactive indifference—because it cares. And it’s the furthest thing from approval—because what’s happening is wrong. Mercy includes a component of forceful anger, but anger’s typical hostility, vindictiveness, and destructiveness does not dominate. True mercy proceeds hand in… — David A. Powlison Copy Share
“First, notice the weather. “Our Father . . . makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust” (Matthew 5: 45). We need sun and rain in order to have food, and God doesn’t discriminate in doing basic good. Can you do that too? Second, notice how even… — David A. Powlison Copy Share
“By instinct, habit, and enculturation, all of us tend to think of counseling as a human-with-human interaction. But in fact a human-with-Savior interaction must… — David A. Powlison Copy Share Image
“To actually make peace, where open wrong, hostility, and destruction now operate, is the hardest and best work in the world. It involves saying… — David A. Powlison Copy Share Image
“Motives are not only the fine china of plausible desires and honest hurt. They are also the steel and high explosives of all-consuming self-will.” — David A. Powlison Copy Share Image
“Every one of us has a hard time changing. It’s hard to think straight about anger. It grabs you and it’s got you. The… — David A. Powlison Copy Share Image
“There’s something high and mighty about anger, when distilled to its basic elements. Anger goes wrong when you get godlike. Your desires become divine… — David A. Powlison Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any benefits. And yet, he's thinking… — Pico Iyer Copy Share
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory. — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
When you are writing for an artist you are trying to get into that artist's point of view. What does that artist want to… — Frank Wildhorn Copy Share Image
Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
Donald Trump doesn't necessarily stay mad for very long. He's a transactional guy. If you can offer him something, he will take it. Or… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
The thing I try to tell people who are just starting in the business is to listen to yourself, trust yourself, and be kind… — Jessie Mueller Copy Share Image
Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view,… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
At some point, you have to disconnect, if the obsession with playing a real person gets in the way of the movie at large. At the same time, we're all interested, as actors in trying to get as close to the real thing as we can, and whatever you can do in order to create that transformation feels fun and,… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share
