Quotes about Thoughts

And without doubt it is better for thee and for all My other servants, that ye should be proved by adversities, than that ye should have all things as ye would. I know thy hidden thoughts: and that it is very needful for thy soul's health that sometimes thou be left without relish, lest perchance thou be lifted up by prosperity, and desirous to please thyself in that which thou art not.

Thou thinkest as man. In many things thou judgest as human affection persuadeth thee.

How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?

Hence it is written (Wis. 9:14): "The thoughts of mortal men are fearful, and our counsels uncertain." Thus man needs to be guarded by the angels. Reply

ORIGEN. For if in an earthly kingdom they are thought to be in honour who sit with the king, no wonder if a woman with womanish simplicity or want of experience conceived that she might ask such things, and that the brethren themselves being not perfect, and having no more lofty thoughts concerning Christ's kingdom, conceived such things concerning those who shall sit with Jesus.

So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all - not in any way.

Nothing is too absurd for some philosopher to have said it.

The mind is a garden, said he.

fear brings about that which one is afraid of, and that hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes.

Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you.

so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again...