thought on Speaking Truth to Power

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.

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

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...

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

We all live in the world our questions create.

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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.

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

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...

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...

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...

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.