October 24

I continually advocate that you be a true optimist, rugged mentally, a real believer. No doubt-thinking person can be an optimist, for an optimist is a person who believes in good outcomes even when he can't yet see them. That is also the Bible's definition of faith as "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." So the real believer is a person who believes in better things when there is yet no evidence to confirm his expectation. He is one who believes in his own future even when he cannot see much possibility in it.