Quotes about Attitude
Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.
— John Piper
Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.
— John Piper
Christians in the West are weakened by wimpy worldviews. And wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians.
— John Piper
We want people to like us and admire us and speak well of us. It is a deadly drive. Jesus warned us, "Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; and whoever humbles himself will be exalted" (Matthew 23:12).
— John Piper
If we come with a chip on our shoulder that there is nothing we can learn or no benefit we can get, we will prove ourselves infallible on both counts.
— John Piper
Most people don't feel conscious hostility to God. The hostility is manifest more subtly with a quiet insubordination and indifference.
— John Piper
Not all question asking is good. It depends on the attitude. Is there a submission to the Word of God and a readiness to obey God when we understand what he wants of us? Is there a willingness to embrace the mysteries of God if something is plain but over our head?
— John Piper
There is a world of difference between the silence of apathy and the silence of passion!
— John Piper
Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.
— John Wooden
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
— Ellen White
The very act of looking for evil in others develops evil in those who look. By dwelling upon the faults of others, we are changed into the same image.
— Ellen White
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
— Ellen Glasgow