Quotes about Stimulation

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

Let My thoughts burst freely upon your consciousness, stimulating abundant Life.

Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

The moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others.

Activity does not necessarily mean life.

Ideas carried out stimulate more ideas.

It is as we daily hear God's call, and put [intercessory prayer] into practice, that the consciousness will begin to live in us, that we too, are intercessors; and that we shall feel the need of living in Christ and being full of the Spirit if we are to do the work of the intercession aright. Nothing will so test and stimulate the Christian life as the honest attempt to be an intercessor.

People will put up with being terrified but no one will tolerate being bored.

Controversy is bad for the spirit, however enlivening to the wits.

The lifting up of themselves for which he gives them freedom is not a movement which is formless, or to which they themselves have to give the necessary form. It takes place in a definite form and direction. Similarly, their looking to Jesus as their Lord is not an idle gaping. It is a vision that stimulates those to whom it is given to a definite action.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.