Quotes About Mind

Peter Aykroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind. Thse are the little touches that make it past come alive.

El ruido de su reloj terminó por alcanzarlo, de manera progresiva, como si hubiera una fuga de agua en la que cada gota se sumara a la anterior; a fin de construir una estalactita quese moviese e insertase milímetro a milímetro en su cerebro.

As our Savior has said, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind" (Matthew 22:37). To do this, we cannot neglect the soulful development of a Christian mind.

we cannot "prove," that is, "make known to ourselves and to others," what God's will is without the renewing or transformation of our minds.

If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying, learning community that values the life of the mind.

Christians must rely on the Holy Spirit in their intellectual pursuits, but this does not mean they should expend no mental sweat of their own in defending the faith.

We sing, "In my heart, Lord, be glorified," but when was the last time you heard someone sing, "In my intellectual life, Lord, be glorified"?

Sunday school classes, discipleship materials, and sermons too often address the heart and not the head, or focus on personal growth and piety and not on cultivating an intellectual love for God in my vocation.

This can only be done by making these cultural assumptions explicit, by exposing them for the intellectual frauds they actually are, and by being vigilant in keeping them before one's mind and spotting their presence in the ordinary reception of input each day from newspapers, magazines, office conversation, television, movies and so on.

I'd want to say so many things. But my main exhortation would be this: Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites and expects us to explore His double revelation, in nature and Scripture, with the minds He has given us, and to go on in the development of a Christian mind to apply His marvelous revealed truth to every aspect of the modern and post-modern world.

According to the Bible, developing a Christian mind is part of the very essence of discipleship unto the Lord Jesus.

As theologian Carl Henry put it, "Training the mind is an essential responsibility of the home, the church, and the school. Unless evangelicals prod young people to disciplined thinking, they waste — even undermine — one of Christianity's most precious resources.

As former president of the United Nations General Assembly Charles Malik has said, "I must be frank with you: the greatest danger confronting American evangelical Christianity is the danger of anti-intellectualism. The mind in its greatest and deepest reaches is not cared for enough.

Descartes' s faith in his assertion "I think, therefore I am" may be superseded by a more primitive affirmation that is part of the genetic makeup of all mammals: "I feel, therefore I am."34 Evolutionary

The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind.

Think well to be well.

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Growing old is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

This weapon I am giving you is a tool, an emergency tool. It is not to be depended upon as a first resort, or a second, or even a third. Your greatest assets will always be your mind and your ability to act on wise decisions. Fail to make proper use of those assets, and the weapon cannot save you. Remember that, Mari.

volar con la velocidad del pensamiento, para estar en cualquier lugar, debe comenzar por saber que ya está allí. RICHARD BACH

so every time you bring up that memory, you bring with it all the feelings and emotions you had at that time.

Si un escritorio desordenado es signo de una mente desordenada, ¿qué significa un escritorio ordenado? LAURENCE J. PETER

You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, & the actions you take.

One of the most striking proofs of the personal existence of Satan… is found in the fact, that he has so influenced the minds of multitudes in reference to his existence and doings, as to make them believe that he does not exist." —WILLIAM RAMSEY