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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...

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

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

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

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.

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.

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

We all live in the world our questions create.

The average person has more than thirty thousand thoughts per day. Of those, so many are negative that “according to researchers, the vast majority of the illnesses that plague us today are a direct r...

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...

An elderly man had horrible nightmares, the same event happening over and over in his dreams. He would dream that an enormous green dragon was chasing him, and he would become frantic. Then, just abou...

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

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

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.

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 ...

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.