Inspirational Quotes on Thoughts

“What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.”

“Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.”

“The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart”.”

“Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a mother. [. . .] The will-parent must discipline the mind-child, avoiding both the opposite extremes commonly made in disciplining either children or thoughts: tyranny or permissiveness.”

“You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things.”

“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”

“I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.”

“Salomon saith, So that as Plato had an imagination, so Salomon giveth his sentence, ”

“Holiness has to do with more than mere acts. Our motives must be holy, that is, arising from a desire to do something simply because it is the will of God. Our thoughts should be holy, since they are known to God even before they are formed in our minds.”

“Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.”

“He [satan] vies for the bedside position, hopping to be the first voice you hear. He covets your waking thoughts, those early, pillow-born emotions. He awakes you with words of worry, stirs you with thoughts of stress. If you dread the day before you begin your day, Mark it down; your giant has been in your head.”

“. . . not only our works, but also our thoughts, are open before God.”

“The story we believe we are in determines what we think about ourselves and consequently how we live. For Lewis, Christianity doesn't just make sense of things. It changes our stories. It invites us to enter into, and be part of, a new story.”

“Satan knows, if you are against YOURSELF you will never fulfill your destiny. :(”

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