Quotes about Thoughts

If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I'd walk through a garden forever.

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.

What you pour into your mind you pour into the world.

You become what you think, not what others think of you.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

Words are an extension of our thoughts, but we are our thoughts. Proverbs 23:7 says, "As [a man] thinks in his heart, so is he" (nkjv). God desires not to talk to you, but to "think" to you. This is what Jesus meant when He said, "I do what I see My Father doing" (John 5:19). The text implies, "I do what I mentally see My Father thinking.

Instead of "thinking God's thoughts after him," science was now studying the world as though God didn't exist.

As [a man] thin-keth in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7 KJV, italics added).

For the early scientists, the image of God was not a dry doctrine to which they gave merely cognitive assent. Nor was it a purely private "faith." They treated it as a public truth, the epistemological foundation for the entire scientific enterprise. Their goal, they said, was to think God's thoughts after him. 27 At the time of the scientific revolution, biblical epistemology was the guarantee that the human mind is equipped to gain genuine knowledge of the world.

Redemption is as comprehensive as Creation and Fall. God does not save our souls while leaving our minds to function on their own. He redeems the whole person. Conversion is meant to give new direction to our thoughts, emotions, wills and habits.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.