thought on Perspective

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 ...

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.

We all live in the world our questions create.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

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.

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

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...

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

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.

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.

Worldviews are like belly buttons. Everyone has one, but we don’t talk about them very often. Or perhaps it would be better to say that worldviews are like cerebellums: everyone has one and we can’t l...

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.

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.

In recent years, an entire discipline of modern psychology has developed called cognitive behavioral therapy. This breakthrough teaching reveals that many problems, from eating disorders to relational...

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

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...

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

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...

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...

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