thought on Doing your Best

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

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 ...

The battle for your life is fought and won in your mind. God wants you to take control of your mind, in Jesus' name, through the power of His Holy Spirit. You can think your way into changing your...

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...

We sow a thought and reap an act; We sow an act and reap a habit; We sow a habit and reap a character; We sow a character and reap a destiny.

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

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

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

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

One of my continual battles is the one that happens in my own heart and mind. I continue to discover and fight negative patterns of thought and emotion that are shaped less by Jesus and more by the wo...

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

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...

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.

You will always find what you are looking for. Think about the difference between two birds: a vulture and a hummingbird. Vultures soar high in the sky, looking and searching. What does a vulture find...

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...

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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

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.

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...

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

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

There is no way out of one’s inner life, so one had better get into it. On the inward and downward spiritual journey, the only way out is through.

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

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

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.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

I began to see a pattern at work in many of us. Our emotions were leading us to thoughts, and those thoughts were dictating our decisions, and our decisions were determining behaviors, and then the be...

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

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

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