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We all live in the world our questions create.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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

In his book The Allure of Gentleness , Dallas Willard includes a thought-provoking excerpt from Richard Robinson, a prominent atheist thinker from the mid-20th century. In his work An Atheist’...

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 ...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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.

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

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...

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

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

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 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...

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

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

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

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.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

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...