Quotes about Attitude

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

unbelief turns on an act of will and a habit of mind shaped by choice.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.

We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.

When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God's throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.

Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking. A mood nearly always has its seat in the physical condition, not in the moral.

The Bible attitude is not that God sends sickness or that sickness is of the devil, but that sickness is a fact usable by both God and the devil.

No sin is worse than the sin of self-pity, because it obliterates God and puts self-interest upon the throne.

The reason many of us leave off praying and become hard towards God is because we have only a sentimental interest in prayer.

The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God's call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude. "Many are called, but few are chosen" (Matthew 22:14). That is, few prove that they are the chosen ones. The chosen ones are those who have come into a relationship with God through Jesus Christ and have had their spiritual condition changed and their ears opened.