Quotes about Thoughts
Most of life's battles are won or lost in the mind.
- Craig Groeschel
Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.
- Earl Nightingale
The simple part is, every thought we think and every word we speak is creating our future. If you change your thinking, you can change your life.
- Louise Hay
The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.
- Rick Warren
Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.
- Max Lucado
It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person's life.
- John Eldredge
If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.
- Joyce Meyer
Contentment is an inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit-the whole soul, judgment, thoughts, will, affections and all are satisfied and quiet.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
And the truth is, I know nothing more effective for quieting a Christian soul and getting contentment than this, setting your heart to work in the duties of the immediate circumstances that you are now in, and taking heed of your thoughts about other conditions as a mere temptation.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
Holiness begins in our minds and works out to our actions. This being true, what we allow to enter our minds is critically important. The television programs we watch, the movies we may attend, the books and magazines we read, the music we listen to, and the conversations we have all affect our minds.
- Jerry Bridges
But we need to pray daily for humility and honesty to see these sinful attitudes for that they really are, and then for grace and discipline to root them out of our minds and replace them with thoughts pleasing to God.
- Jerry Bridges
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.
- Jerry Bridges