Quotes About Thought

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

My God...it can think.

If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?

Not a single path Of thought I tread, but that it leads to God.

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

If I told you God was black, what would you think of that?

[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought.

Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.

It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

A great deal of thought must be given to your daughter's marriage. Otherwise, she will simply slink off like a cat on a dark night to be fertilized under a bush to God knows whom!

If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.

It wasn't that we were afraid of the Church or the Vatican. The record company thought people might find the title offensive. They asked me if I would change ["A Deal with God"].

The thought of a man is futile. But the word of God is flawless.

Freedom of the mind is the most important liberty we have. Our belief in God's grace gives us that freedom.

A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It's knowing what you don't know; the skills of critical thought.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

People appreciating my performance is good enough for me. I don't care much for awards and have never given it much thought. And anyway, I can't play the games people play to win awards.

I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.