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Quotes About Thought

Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!
~ Honore de Balzac
This is an amazing thought: a God who is indescribable.
~ Louie Giglio
What is the constitution of the universe? The universe is the manifestation of the divine thought; the thought of God embodies itself in the thought-forms that we call worlds.
~ Annie Besant
Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
~ Teresa of Avila
To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
~ Victor Hugo
To think well is to serve God in the interior court.
~ Thomas Traherne
God is a thing that thinks.
~ Baruch Spinoza
God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.
~ J. I. Packer
God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the secret rulers of the world might do to me if I did!
~ Jon Ronson
Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide: Hatred of God may bring the soul to God.
~ William Butler Yeats
If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.
~ Xenocrates
But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought.
~ Xenophanes
Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Fear comes knocking with a thought. Faith answers with a word ... God's Word.
~ Sharon Jaynes
God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.
~ Edward Abbey
The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.
~ Hannah Arendt
The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.
~ Dallas Willard
Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.
~ Max Lucado
Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.
~ Blaise Pascal
I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important.
~ C. S. Lewis
God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
~ Walter Scott