Quotes about Mind

I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can develop their personalities and their spiritual life.

Reason also is choice.

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.

Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.

Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the mind, but if sin controls the affections, it has seized a fort from which it will continually assault the soul. Hence, as we shall see, mortification is chiefly directed to take place upon the affections.

Your mind was made to know and love God.

A mind fed daily on TV diminishes. Your mind was made to know and love God.

the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God.

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.

The one thing God is doing in all of redemptive history is to show forth his mercy in such a way that the greatest number of people will throughout eternity delight in him with all their heart, strength, and mind.

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).