Quotes about Mind

There are small bits of useless knowledge which stick to one's brain like barnacles to

Why did God even bother to create minds that naturally gauge their level of confidence in a belief on the evidence and arguments for and against it if he's only pleased with minds that can make themselves more certain than the evidence and arguments for it warrant? I just don't get it!

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

I want to help people understand how to study the Scriptures with other people, to give them an overview of Scripture and assume that by understanding the Scriptures better, the Holy Spirit will bring to mind the right stories, the right teachings.

Holding on to silent resentment makes you a prisoner in your own mind and emotions.

If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you'd have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else.

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical.