Quotes about Thoughts
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
- Evelyn Underhill
They are ever eager to assure us that man's most sublime thoughts of the Transcendent are but a little better than his worst: that loving intuition is the only certain guide. "By love may He be gotten and holden, but by thought never.
- Evelyn Underhill
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
- Francois Rabelais
In God's eyes an evil thought is just as sinful as an evil deed. When we allow our minds to be filled with lust, hate, anger, bitterness, jealousy, greed, envy, selfishness, or even doubt, then we are guilty of sin.
- Billy Graham
Don't savor temptations; don't dwell on them or toy with them or replay them over and over in your mind. The more you think about a particular temptation, the more enticing it becomes.
- Billy Graham
A thought enters; we pamper it; it germinates and grows into an evil act.
- Billy Graham
You should no more allow sinful imaginations to accumulate in your mind and soul than you would let garbage collect in your living room.
- Billy Graham
If you belong to Jesus Christ, you are called to live a life of purity and holiness. God wants your mind to be shaped by Him so that your thoughts and goals reflect Christ.
- Billy Graham
Pornography is anything that depicts lewdness in such a way as to create impure thoughts and lusts. However, the sewers continue to flow, destroying the moral fabric of our society.
- Billy Graham
There are Christians who have never really learned the biblical truth of separation: separation from unclean thoughts and unclean habits.
- Billy Graham
The mind is the devil's favorite avenue of attack.
- Billy Graham
Memorizing the Bible is most important. "Thinking God's thoughts" will take the place of worried, anxious concerns.
- Billy Graham