The body is important, but the mind is all-important. And the most important thing about your mind is what it is fixed upon.

Thoughts are where we make our first movements toward God and where the divine Spirit begins to direct our will to God and his way.

We are in a time when thinking rightly is more important than ever. The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.

In charting one's course in life, it is important never to forget that many things that cannot be called wrong or evil are nevertheless not good for us.

The intention points the way, and then habituated thought and desire must be redirected to support the intention in the moments of action.

Frank Laubach wrote of how, in his personal experiment of moment-by-moment submission to the will of God, the fine texture of his work and life experience was transformed. In January of 1930 he began to cultivate the habit of turning his mind to Christ for one second out of every minute.

Indeed, all human troubles come from thinking of God wrongly, which then means, thinking about ourselves wrongly.

Desire—wanting something that appears to be good for some purpose or pleasure.

Consider a daily newspaper or television newscast and eliminate from it every report that presupposes a breaking of one of the Ten Commandments. Very little will be left.

We know, for example, that feelings move us, and that we enjoy being moved.

We bring the reality of God into our lives by making contact with him through our minds, and our actions are based on the understanding that results from the fullness of that contact. There is nothing mysterious here. This is why the mind, and what we turn our minds to, is the key to our lives.

One has to feel strong revulsion toward the wrong feeling one now has or is likely to have and at the same time strong attraction to good feeling that one does not now feel.