Quotes about Thoughts

most important keys to winning these battles is simply to recognize that these thoughts are not our own and to reject all ownership of them.

One of the worst things we can do when we are battling the enemy's onslaughts and our mind is under siege is to speak. I do not mean we should avoid asking for help or grow silent in some corner; I am talking about verbalizing the demonic thoughts, speculations or lofty things being propagated against us. Articulating these poisonous arrows only helps assimilate them into our hearts and live them out in our souls.

The widow becomes God's Exhibit A to teach the world (and his people in particular) how far we have to go before our thoughts and actions line up with his.

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.

If you want to be happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy, get enthusiastic about something.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

Worry is a state of mind based on fear.

And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its cloud of dust and brown steam. There is something brown and holy about the East; and California is white like washlines and emptyheaded - at least that's what I thought then.