Quotes about Thoughts
The last word will not be our bad thoughts and behavior, but mercy, love, and forgiveness.
— Anne Lamott
The thoughts and emotions we stuff down into the darkness become a playground for the enemy, where his toxic filth breeds best. The compulsion to say the 'right thing' explains why so many of us have fallen spiritually sick.
— Sheila Walsh
Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.
— Rick Warren
Lord Bacon said, "Writing makes an exact man." He spoke the truth. Writing produces exactitude by forcing you to set down ideas in logical relation to one another. Writing crystallizes your thoughts and makes your ideas specific.
— John Haggai
But strength alone though of the Muses bornIs like a fallen angel: trees uptorn,Darkness, and worms, and shrouds, and sepulchersDelight it; for it feeds upon the burrsAnd thorns of life; forgetting the great endOf poesy, that it should be a friendTo soothe the cares, and lift the thoughts of man.
— John Keats
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity—it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance.
— John Keats
When we hold our thoughts up against God's standards of what is true and what is real, we can recognize and, with His help, learn to release many of our negative emotions, damaging thoughts, and destructive attitudes.
— Elizabeth George
In one of his letters to Erasmus, Luther said, "YOUR thoughts of God are too human."
— AW Pink
A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts. —WORDSWORTH.
— George Eliot
How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?
— George Eliot
No chemical process shows a more wonderful activity than the transforming influence of the thoughts we imagine to be going on in another.
— George Eliot
Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?
— George Eliot