Quotes about Thought

Face your fears by remembering the power of God's cleaning truth. To change the way you are, change the way you think.

Every bird in the air came from a thought of God, and so did I.

For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

What I thought I developed all of those years ago was a pattern to understand communication.

You and I are the mechanisms God has put in place to keep today's corrupting systems of thought from taking root and then taking effect in the hearts of our children.

a Christian mind demands conscious negation; a Christian mind is impossible without the discipline of refusal.

Why, then, do the Ten Commandments include a law that prohibits a thought? Because it is coveting that so often leads to evil. Or, to put it another way, coveting is what leads to violating the preceding four commandments—the ones against murder, adultery, stealing, and perjury.

The world's thinking is morally confused because it is informed by the morally confused.

I'll praise my Maker while I've breath, And when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my noblest powers; My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.

The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of connection with Christianity. Christianity must pervade not merely all nations but also all of human thought.

We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if we permit the whole collective thought of the nation or of the world to be controlled by ideas which, by the resistless force of logic, prevent Christianity from being regarded as anything more than a harmless delusion...What is to-day a matter of academic speculation, begins to-morrow to move armies and pull down empires.