thought on Concentration

The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas.

When we have the same thought again, the line of the original thought is deepened, causing what's called a memory trace. With each repetition the trace goes deeper and deeper, forming and embeddin...

My thought it is a wanton ranger,  It skips away;  I fear 'twill bring my soul in danger  On Judgment Day...

Too often we give real estate to things in our lives that either haven’t earned their land or were never meant to occupy important space in the first place.

Our lives are always moving in the direction of our strongest thoughts. What we think shapes who we are.

God's Word must be so strongly fixed in our minds that it becomes the dominant influence in our thoughts, our attitudes, and our actions. One of the most effective ways of influencing our minds is...

Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.

To most people nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

But it’s not so simple, that sort of “quiet hour”. It has to be learned. A lot of unimportant inner litter and bits and pieces have to be swept out first. Even a small head can be piled high inside wi...

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

Another Bible translation says that Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord” (NKJV, emphasis added). What did she mean by magnifies? When you look at something through a magnifying glass, it looks much...

The desert saints said that the beginning of renouncing a thought is simply noticing it. That is part of what I’m doing in my quarter hours—I am noticing, and naming, and then, for a few minutes, quar...

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

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

At the start of the process the idea is just a thought - very fragile and exclusive. When the first physical manifestation is created everything changes. It is no longer exclusive, now it involves a l...

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

One thing is certain: if you don’t shape your life, it will be shaped for you. And to shape your life, you need to know how to shape your mind—you need mind-management.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

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...

What Determines Happiness?  Imagine a movie theater full of a hundred people. These hundred individuals represent the full continuum of happiness: Some are exceptionally happy, others less so, and ...

Mind-management is a skill that needs to be learned and constantly upgraded as we grow from childhood into adulthood. For every new experience we need a new set of mind-management tools.

The greatest spiritual battle of our generation is being fought between our ears.

The great irony of our time is that even as we are living longer, we are thinking shorter.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

The insight that we can exercise some control over our thoughts and feelings is deep in Christianity.

The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

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

Did you know that more has been discovered about our minds in the last twenty years than in all the time before that? Did you know that an estimated 60 to 80 percent of visits to primary care physicia...