Quotes about Mind

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive. If you're praying, you're really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you.

As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don't line up with God's Word, you'll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word.

God has given each one of us a gift greater than a thousand I.B.M. machines. It is called a memory, and everything that passes through our five senses is stored in this faculty.

Revelation is something communicated from infinite agency or reality to the finite mind. But (in Farrer's picture) this is not a matter of God just interrupting the process of the world to 'insert' something alien into the gap; it happens as a result of what happens in the world of finite agents or substances, as these finite realities are modified in their relations to one another, drawn into newly meaningful shapes.

To think of myself as a body, to be conscious of myself as a body, is to be conscious of other people's consciousness.

Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.

What am I but a little flesh, a little breath, and the thinking part that rules the whole?

Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.