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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

The root of our English term doubt has to do with duplicity. It is being divided or doubled up in our thinking. But this isn’t a matter of simply being confused or unable to make up our mind or ...

In the first chapter of her book, Get Out of Your Head , author Jennie Allen shares a vulnerable and honest moment from her own life about just how hard it can be to focus in a world of distraction...

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

I remember playing a game as a child in which we would bend one knee and grab our foot behind us and then try to race—limping, stumbling and falling over as we struggled across the grass toward a fini...

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

God, always the same, let me know myself, let me know Thee!

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

I find it hard to be at rest and ambitious at the same time.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Doubt is not unbelief, but it is not faith either. It wavers between faith and unbelief, unable to make up its mind what it wants to be. It is like the hitchhiker who was thumbing a ride with his hand...

If I were making a list of benefits like the one Mike McKinley imagines, only this time using the devil’s actual logic, it might look more like this: Experience the excitement of new romance. Get th...

We need to admit the mind into Christian fellowship again. We need the mind disciplined in Christ, enlightened by faith, passionate for God and his creation, to be let loose in the world.

God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth and the lips, to teach us to be wary that...

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

At this very moment you and I are either committing [selfishness], or about to commit it, or repenting it.

In an attempt to engage in critical thinking, scholars suggest asking whether our opinions are true by simply asking if the opposite could be true. This practice (I’m not joking) is named after on an ...

I am tangled up in contradictions. I am strangled by my own two hands. I am hunted by the hounds of addiction.!

There is not any thing, relating to men and characters, more surprising and unaccountable, than this partiality to themselves. . . . Hence it is that many men seem perfect strangers to their own chara...

We do not fool Him by saying we want something for His glory when secretly our motivations are selfish. We do not fool Him by saying we believe He can work miracles when inwardly we doubt He will foll...

Of two evils, choose neither.

Know thyself — but don’t tell anyone.

Writer Michael Novak says that doubt is not so much a dividing line that separates people into different camps, as it is a razor’s edge that runs through every soul. Many believers tend to think doubt...

When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am...