There was once a young boy who went to spend the week with his grandfather on the farm. While walking around he noticed the chickens, they were scratching and playing around. The little lad said, "They ain't got it." Next he saw a colt in the field playing and kicking up its heels to which he replied, "He ain't got it." After examining all of the animals on his grandfather's farm and see that none of them had "it", this boy finally found the old donkey in the barn. When he saw the donkey's long, frowning face and the way that the donkey just stood there he screamed for his grandfather to come quick. "I found it, I found it!" the boy kept yelling. When his grandfather asked what he had found he said, "Pawpaw, I found an animal that has the same kind of religion that you have."
The attitude we have in church and in our daily lives has an effect on how people perceive us as Christians.
From Riaan de Villiers' Sermon "An Attitude of Joy"