Sermon quotes on the mind
Daniel Amen
Don’t believe everything you hear – even in your own mind.
Mark Batterson
Neuroimaging has shown that as we age, our cognitive center of gravity shifts from the imaginative right brain to the logical left brain. At some point, most of us top living out of imagination and start living out of memory. That’s the day we stop creating the future and start repeating the past. That’s the day we stop living by faith and start living by logic.
If: Trading Your If only Regrets for God’s What if Possibilities, Baker Books.
Jerry Bridges
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 through memorizing Scripture. David said, “I have hidden Your Word in my heart that I might not sin against You” (Psm. 119:11).”
John Bunyan
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a glass slipper on a gouty foot.
Robertson Davies
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Benjamin Franklin (apocryphal)
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
William James
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
John Milton
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
John Henry Newman
We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
R.C. Sproul
The word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart, but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.
Mark Twain
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Warren Wiersbe
“Nothing paralyzes our lives like the attitude that things can never change. We need to remind ourselves that God can change things. Outlook determines outcome. If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.
Alan Bloom
Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities.
Walter J. Ong
Technologies are not mere exterior aids but also interior transformations of consciousness, and never more than when they affect the word.
Thomas Kelly
The mind is an instrument of staggering potential, but its potential is not measured by IQ or academic degrees.
Timothy R. Jennings
The battlefield on which the war between Christ and Satan is fought is the mind.
Taken from The God-Shaped Brain by Timothy R. Jennings. ©2017 by Timothy R. Jennings. Used by permission of InterVarsity Press, P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove IL 60515-1426. www.ivpress.com
Timothy R. Jennings
The human brain is truly the most sophisticated, elegant, biological piece of machinery ever known.
Taken from The God-Shaped Brain by Timothy R. Jennings. ©2017 by Timothy R. Jennings. Used by permission of InterVarsity Press, P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove IL 60515-1426. www.ivpress.com.
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The human mind is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it’s a good idea to turn off the sound.
Giovanni Frazzetto
Emotions make our minds speak to each other. They are the most faithful reproduction of our inner worlds, broadcast externally in the expression of our faces.
Joy, Guilt, Anger, Love, Penguin Publishing Group, 2014, p.11
Tony Reinke
The mind is not merely a computer for data processing; it’s the faculty for seeing.
Taken from Competing Spectacles by Tony Reinke, © 2019, p.15. Used by permission of Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers, Wheaton, IL 60187, www.crossway.org.
Robert Oxton Bolt
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.
Dorothy Sayers
The Power—the Spirit—is thus a social power, working to bring all minds into its own unity, sometimes by similarity and at other times by contrast. There is a diversity of gifts, but the same spirit.
The Mind of the Maker, Harper Collins 1941, 1987, 121.
Caroline Leaf
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.
Caroline Leaf
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.
Caroline Leaf
A large part of the problem is that we’ve lost much of our ability to think deeply. We’ve forgotten the art of deep and focused mind-management. We want things fast, quick, now. We often don’t want to put in the hard work that leads to true change, or we’ve never been taught what this kind of work looks like.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
To love God intellectually is to become a student of God—a student who really takes an interest in God. Have you ever noticed that a fair number of Christians are not particularly interested in God? Some of them are ministers. These are people who don’t ask about God, don’t talk about God, and maybe don’t even think about God unless they really have to. Their interest in God seems merely professional.
Isn’t this strange? Shouldn’t we be somewhat preoccupied with God? Isn’t that what lovers do? They get preoccupied with their beloved. They notice things about the one they love.
“Intellectual Love of God” Pro Rege (2016)
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