personal development on Double-Minded

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.

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.

Contradiction, paradox, the tension of opposites: these have always been at the heart of my experience, and I think I am not alone. I am tugged one way and then the other. My beliefs and my actions of...

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

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

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

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

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

A remarkable aspect of your mental life is that you are rarely stumped.

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

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...

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...

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothi...

Multitasking is the drive to be more than we are, to control more than we do, to extend our power and our effectiveness. Such practice yields a divided self, with full attention given to nothing.

Know Thyself-but don’t tell anyone.

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.

Discernment in its fullness takes a practiced heart, fine-tuned to hear the word of God and the single-mindedness to follow that word in love. It is truly a gift from God, but not one dropped from the...

As thou art in church or cell, that same frame of mind carry out into the world, into its turmoil and its fitfulness.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

But when the cross is working deeply a believer comes to know himself. He realizes how undependable are his ideas, feelings and desires.

The mind is an instrument of staggering potential, but its potential is not measured by IQ or academic degrees.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Seco...

Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

“It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

'He hath ever but slenderly known himself."

O God, too often we turn to You when we have no other place to go, but your arms are always open wide. Forgive us for using you as our last resort when you ought to be our first. We confess that you h...