Quotes about Mind

The spiral begins this way: a temptation or thought that's not from God comes into your mind. Stop right there. Identify that reality. If a harmful thought enters your mind, it's not from God. We must be awakened to this. Those thoughts are from the Enemy, who often uses our own desires against us.

when a harmful thought or temptation comes into our minds, we have a choice. We can either discard that thought or entertain it. If we discard it, good. But if we enetertain it, that's when the Devil sits at our table.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will.

I believe this angel cries out, What is this that You are so interested in and fondly affectionate toward? What is that little thing that is constantly on Your mind-the total focus of Your plans?

We cannot discern what is truly good for our lives without first having our minds renewed.

The wisdom or counsel of God is deep water and is often a mystery to the natural mind.

Matt. Then Matthew who had been sick, asked her, Why for the most part Physick should be bitter to our palates? Prud. To shew how unwelcome the Word of God and the effects thereof are to a Carnal Heart. Matt. Why does Physick, if it does good, purge, and cause that we vomit? Prud. To shew that the Word, when it works effectually, cleanseth the Heart and Mind. For look, what the one doth to the Body the other doth to the Soul.

Let the Most Blessed be my guide, if it be His will, Unto His gate, into His fold, and up to His holy hill. And let Him never allow me to turn aside or veer, From his free grace and holy ways, whatever I suffer. And let Him gather those of mine whom I have left behind; Lord, please make them be thine, with all their heart and mind.

I find that men as high as trees will write, dialogue-wise yet no man doth them slight. For writing so: Indeed if they abuse, truth, cursed be they, and the craft they use. To that intent; but yet let truth be free, to make her salleys upon Thee, and Me. Which way it pleases God: For who knows how, Better than he that taught us first to Plough. To guide our Mind and Pens for his Design? And he makes base things usher in Divine.

Now, if a good man cannot do good things with that oneness and universalness of mind, as a wicked man doth sin with, then is his sin heavier to weigh him down to hell than is his righteousness to buoy him up to the heavens.