95. POSITIVENESS
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Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things (Phil.4:8).
1. Let's talk about Jesus! Let's get positive! Let's talk about the Word! Let's talk about the needs of others!
2. Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
3. Why bother to find fault?--There's no reward offered.
4. Faults are thick where love is thin.
5. No man ever injured his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things.
6. Optimist or pessimist? Do you call traffic signals go-lights or stoplights?
7. The world is full of beauty when the heart is full of love.
8. Some people think in terms of problems and some in terms of solutions.
9. Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
10. Two men look out through the same bars,
One sees the mud, and one sees the stars.
11. A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good, for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.
12. A pessimist sees a difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees an opportunity in every difficulty.
13. All the World is beautiful when seen through the eyes of love.
14. The outlook may not always be easy, but the uplook is great.
15. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.--Helen Keller--deaf and blind her whole life!
16. Your attitude determines your altitude.
17. The man who deals in sunshine
Is the man who gets the crowds.
He does a lot more business
Than the man who peddles clouds.
18. An optimist is the one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
19. Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
20. It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not.
21. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessing get moldy, and then call them curses.
22. I have to get up on the right now, in the right key, then I sing the right song all day.
23. Keep your eyes on Jesus, because there's no other way to look but down at the dismal abyss of horrible nothingness.
24. If we don't keep our eyes on the Lord and our mind or His Word we're doomed to defeat, doubt disillusionment and final failure!
25. All through life, my brother,
If you'd be a happy soul,
Keep your eye upon the doughnut
And not upon the hole.
26. If you're downhearted and downcast, it's because you're looking down too much at the waves. You've got your antenna pointed down toward Hell instead of up toward Heaven.
27. Accentuate the positive!
28. All some people can see is a button off the vest, instead of the beautiful necktie!
29. The Lord doesn't say look at yourself, He says, "Look unto Jesus!" (Heb.12:2)
30. There's one thing about looking in, it will make you look up!
31. It's a mistake to title anything negatively by the problem instead of by the solution.
32. Try to always accentuate the positive and not the negative.
33. If you keep your mind on the Lord, that keeps you from getting it on your problems and your troubles!
34. Dwell not on what the World has become, but on Who has come to the World.
35. Your day goes the way the corners of your mouth turn.
36. 'Twixt optimist and pessimist
The difference is droll:
The optimist sees the doughnut;
The pessimist sees the hole.
37. If it weren't for the optimist, the pessimist would never know how happy he isn't.
38. The loser says, "The worst is just around the corner." The winner says, "The best is yet to come."
39. A contented man is one who enjoys the scenery along the detour.
40. A hopeless pessimist is always building dungeons in the air.
41. God's Word says that whatsoever things are of good report--think on these things.
42. The only person who can have perfect peace and perfectly positive thoughts and no negative thoughts, is somebody who keeps his mind on Jesus all the time!
43. If you can't see Jesus in it somehow, forget it.
44. Come with me where moonbeams light Eternal skies!
--And the sparkling stardust lingers in your eyes!
45. If you think evil, you may do evil!
46. Sign in window: The difficult we will do right away, the impossible may take a little longer.
47. Both the optimists and pessimists contribute to society. Proof?--The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist invents the parachute!
48. There is no sense in advertising your troubles. There's no market for them.
49. We can complain because the rose bushes have thorns--or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses!
50. Even if you sleep in a thousand-mat room, you can only sleep on one mat.
51. God's Word tell us to publish the Glad Tidings, not sad tidings. Jesus commanded us to preach the Gospel, which means "good news", not bad news.
52. We don't believe in advertising the Devil's wares or foolish mistakes, though we're not ignorant of his devices. He can't accomplish much without our help, so we should refuse to help him.
53. There's plenty for the Devil to pick on and he really tries, but you just have to overcome him with positive actions, quote Scriptures that deny the lies, and start praising the Lord and thanking Him for all your blessings.
54. Start thinking on the positive things, quit looking at all the negative things and trials of the Devil and doubts and fears and woes and troubles and tribulations and afflictions!
55. If the Devil can't persuade you not to serve God, then he tries to get you so weighed down with things, problems and time and energy and money-wasters that you can't even move.
56. There's plenty for the Devil to pick on and he really tries, but you just have to overcome him with positive actions, quote Scriptures that deny the lies, and start praising the Lord and thanking Him for all your blessings.
57. Start thinking on the positive things, quit looking at all the negative things and trials of the Devil and doubts and fears and woes and troubles and tribulations and afflictions!
58. If the Devil can't persuade you not to serve God, then he tries to get you so weighed down with things, problems and time and energy and money-wasters that you can't even move.
(See also No. 20, 25, 33, 159, 599, 639, 717, 727, 802, 957, 1035, 1259, 1268, 1375, 1393, 1492.)
59. PHI.4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
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