Quotes About Thoughts

When I´m done, I put the letter in my diary instead of in my hat box. I have a feeling I´m not done-done yet, that there´s still more I need to say, I just haven´t thought of it yet.

Ever since I got your letter … I haven't been able to stop thinking about you.

Sorry about my sister. She's really close with Peter and she gets crazy ideas…" "Crazy ideas?" John repeats. I could slap myself. "Yeah, I mean, she thinks that something's going on with us. But obviously there isn't, and you don't, like, like me like that, so, yeah, it's crazy." Like, why do I speak? Why did God give me a mouth if I'm just going to say dumb stuff with it?

Are you thinking about Conrad?" he asked mockingly.

I was thinking about her too. Even when she's not here, she's here. That girl has some kind of reach.

For someone who's over Genevieve, he sure does talk about her a lot. Though it's not just him. I was thinking about her too. Even when she's not here, she's here. That girl has some kind of reach.

He found himself in a room not unlike the shop. All books again, packed tight on shelves or laying in piles on every surface. It was a cozy room, for all that ; it smelled of warm, rich words and very deep thoughts.

Trotzdem war es hier gemütlich; es doch nach warmen, gehaltvollen Wörtern und Tiefen Gedanken

If only they were French, the wife thinks. This would all feel different

It's not knowing that drives you mad. It's imaging things that you wish you couldn't think up all by yourself.

contentment is an inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit-the whole soul, judgment, thoughts, will, affections and all are satisfied and quiet.

Technically defined, splitting is the rigid separation of positive and negative thoughts and feelings about oneself and others; that is, the inability to synthesize these feelings.

Joy and serenity are not slavishly tied to our physiology. We are not programmed neurons over which we have no control. We are collaborators in the generation of our thoughts and emotions.

Holiness begins in our minds and works out to our actions. This being true, what we allow to enter our minds is critically important. The television programs we watch, the movies we may attend, the books and magazines we read, the music we listen to, and the conversations we have all affect our minds.

But we need to pray daily for humility and honesty to see these sinful attitudes for that they really are, and then for grace and discipline to root them out of our minds and replace them with thoughts pleasing to God.

Holiness has to do with more than mere acts. Our motives must be holy, that is, arising from a desire to do something simply because it is the will of God. Our thoughts should be holy, since they are known to God even before they are formed in our minds.

cada vez que pecamos, hacemos algo que Dios aborrece. Aborrece nuestros pensamientos lujuriosos, nuestro orgullo y nuestros celos, nuestros desplantes temperamentales, y el razonamiento falto de que el fin justifica los medios. Se tiene que interiorizar en nosotros el hecho de que Dios aborrece todas estas cosas. Nos acostumbramos tanto a nuestro pecado, que a veces caemos en un estado de coexistencia pacífica con él; pero Dios no deja de aborrecerlos jamás.

We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.

We can develop the habit of thinking thoughts that are pure, true, and good. We can develop the habits of prayer and meditating on the Scriptures. But these habits will only be developed through frequent repetition.

In all of our thoughts, all of our actions, in every part of our character, the ruling principle that motivates and guides us should be the desire to follow Christ in doing the will of the Father.

You may not feel that the flesh is dead; it may not seem evident as you deal with temptation and ungodly thoughts that obviously come from that old fleshly nature of sin, but the Bible is saying, "Consider the flesh as being dead—think of it in this way—because that's the way it is!" Reconcile your perception of the flesh with the truth of what God has said about it.

There were mornings I thought drugs made me insane and mornings I thought they kept me from going that way.

Life is a state of mind.

But dreams are imagined. They are a work of the imagination.