Quotes about Mindset

Those who decide to be preoccupied with believing God over all their negative emotions and other feelings to the contrary will sooner or later discover that God delights in answered prayer, no matter how big those prayers become.

You are being renewed in the spirit of your minds. Ephesians 4:23

Actually, God's method of balancing our checkbooks isn't primarily about numbers. It's about attitude.

As long as our minds rehearse the strength of our stronghold more than the strength of our God, we will be impotent. As we pray the Word of God acknowledging His limitless strength and transcendent dominion, Truth will begin to eclipse the lies. We will realize that in our weakness He is strong and that as we bend the knee to His lordship God is more than able to deliver us.

You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their thoughts. Ephesians 4:17

If our stubborn minds would absorb that we are accepted by God because of Jesus Christ, our choices and subsequent behaviors would be profoundly affected.

I don't believe that rejection, in and of itself, is a stronghold. It's our reaction to rejection that determines whether or not we become bound by it.

If I try to be fast then I'm no good, so it's better just to shut everything off and let instinct take over.

There are so many things you can lose sight of as you try to win games and all the stuff we try to do every day.

Nothing concerns me other than my time. That is my only concern. I don't pay any attention to the rest. I run after time. If that improves, the gold, silver, etc. will follow.

The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind. The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has its legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.