In her All Saints' sermon Denise Kelsall proposes that the beatitudes are about the attitude adjustment required by all saints.\n\n"A long time ago I cut a pithy saying out of a newspaper. I can\u2019t recall the exact words but the central message was that we are shaped by our attitudes. It said that we are 90% attitude and 10% talent and that people who succeed in life have an abundance of the right attitude.\n\nTalent, beauty, strength, brilliance \u2013 all take a back seat to attitude in the way our lives develop."\n\nFull text at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=453&id=889.