thought on Original Thought

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

Many of us tend to be passive with our thoughts and feelings. We treat them like they rule us, like they are in charge of us, and not the other way around. We forget that our thoughts and feelings are...