Quotes about Thoughts
Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.
— Teresa of Avila
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
— Soren Kierkegaard
You have little control over the world around you, but full control over the world within you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The cleanest feet in the universe are positive thoughts walking through your mind.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure.
— Brother Lawrence
But I do know that if you want to change your situation you must first change your thoughts. Because if you keep on thinking what you have been thinking you'll keep on getting what you have been getting.
— Jon Gordon
if you want to change your situation you must first change your thoughts.
— Jon Gordon
Thoughts are magnetic. What we think about we attract.
— Jon Gordon
So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to it. And this seems to be the reason why persons that are under the disease of melancholy are commonly so visibly and remarkably subject to the suggestions and temptations of Satan... Innumerable are the ways by which the mind may be led on to all kind of evil thoughts, by the exciting of external ideas in the imagination.
— Jonathan Edwards
We ought to be much concerned to know whether we do not live in the gratification of some lust, either in practice or in our thoughts: whether we do not live in the omission of some duty, some thing which God expects we should do; whether we do not go into some practice or manner of behaviour, which is not warrantable.
— Jonathan Edwards
Human beings were taken from the earth and don't just consist of thin air and thoughts.
— Eric Metaxas
For a moment I had felt elation as on the instant of waking before one remembers.
— Graham Greene