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Holy Spirit of God hath prepared and disposed of the Scripture so as it might be a most sufficient and absolutely perfect way and means of communicating unto our minds that saving knowledge of God and his will which is needful that we may live unto him, and come unto the enjoyment of him in his glory.
- John Owen
It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.
- Cicero
The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.
- Jean Danielou
They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.
- Virginia Woolf
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
- Charles Dickens
Though it may be, Jo, that there is a history so interesting and affecting even to minds as near the brutes as thine, recording deeds done on this earth for common men, that if the Chadbands, removing their own persons from the light, would but show it thee in simple reverence, would but leave it unimproved, would but regard it as being eloquent enough without their modest aid—it might hold thee awake, and thou might learn from it yet!
- Charles Dickens
When Jesus came preaching the kingdom of God, He came preaching God's right to rule over the minds and hearts of all people. But that is precisely what the people involved did not want. Adam did not want it. He had great freedom, but he was offended by God's unreasonable and arbitrary (so he judged) restriction in the case of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
- James Montgomery Boice
You cannot share your life with a dog or a cat and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.
- Jane Goodall
But as more people realize that animals have a right to live and are sentient beings with personalities, minds, and emotions, there is increased public support for these programs. What's really exciting is that some of these species in the European plains were on the very brink of extinction.
- Jane Goodall
Ordinary women never appeal to one's imagination.They are limited to their century. No glamour every transfigures them. One knows their minds as easily as one knows their bonnets. One can always find them. There is no mystery in any of them.
- Oscar Wilde
Satan, and his intent is to thwart God's purposes by manipulating the minds of human beings.
- Dallas Willard
Memorization is an essential element of a life without lack. It is a primary way we fill our minds with the Word of God and have our thoughts formed by God's thoughts.
- Dallas Willard