Quotes about Attitude

Philip Yancey sees our blasé attitude toward the faithfulness of God in the waitstaff At Yellowstone. Even when they are finished their chores, they don't look up and marvel at the geiser going off. After all, they see it so often.

Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says, 'Oh dear, things can't possibly get any worse.' An optimist says, 'Don't be so sad. Things can always get worse.

The only hope for the future lay in an all-embracing attitude of forgiveness of the peoples who had been our enemies.

When I listened to public prayers in evangelical churches, I heard people telling God what to do, combined with thinly veiled hints on how others should behave. When

We should leave a worship service asking ourselves not "What did I get out of it?" but rather "Was God pleased with what happened?

What counts is the way a person reacts in the face of suffering. That is the real test of the person: What is our personal attitude to life and its changes and chances?

Legalism is a subtle danger because no one thinks of himself as a legalist.

The medical community now freely admits that in a larger sense a person's attitude is one of the chief factors in determining the effect of all suffering.

How could she say anything other than "yes"? The only question she really had to answer was this: Was she going to do it begrudgingly or could she do it with a servant's heart?

One of humanity's most common character traits is ingratitude.

Gratitude takes effort; resentment is effortless.

We determine how much we will allow something to make us unhappy. That we can determine our emotional response to events is hard for many people to acknowledge. Most people think that events make them unhappy, that their happiness level is essentially dictated by what happens to them. But this is untrue.