thought on Quoting Others

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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 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.

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...

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

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

We all live in the world our questions create.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

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

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

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

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.