Our Thoughts Quotes - Page 20

• Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?

  John Calvin

  Glamour, Garments, Fixed

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.88, Baker Books

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• we have become masters of projection—pushing the responsibility for our own thoughts outward so that the consequences of our thoughts become someone else's problem.

  Darren Main

  Responsibility, Pushing, Problem

  Darren Main (2003). “Inner Tranquility: A Guide to Seated Meditation: 3rd Edition”, p.21, BookBaby

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• Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.

  Samuel Johnson

  Stars, Real, Space

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• Our thoughts are free.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Free Thought

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Duncan (1792). “Cicero's Select Orations”, p.491

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• The name of happiness is but a wider termfor the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life,attendant on all function, and not to be deny'dto th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of naturespiritual is by definition unnatural.

  Robert Bridges

  Names, Soul, Definitions

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• In this media-drenched, data-rich, channel-surfing, computer-gaming age, we have lost the art of doing nothing, of shutting out the background noise and distractions, of slowing down and simply being alone with our thoughts.

  Carl Honore

  Art, Media, Background Noise

  Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness, in its highest aspect, is perfect and formless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Practice

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• With the power of one's will we stop thought and move into alternate forms of perception. We gain that power through practicing very, very, very hard each day when we meditate to stop our thoughts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Meditation

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• The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Discovery, Weapons, Facts

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a spirit that guides us, if we will listen. It speaks softly. In order to hear it we must still our thoughts and meditate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Order, Meditation

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• We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.

  Ali Smith

  Character, Past, Rolling Along

  "Do we still need Doctor Who? Time travel in the internet age" by James Gleick, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2017.

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• Hence reason also demands that, since our thoughts cannot all be true because we are not wholly perfect, what truth they do possess must inevitably be found in the thoughts we have when awake, rather than in our dreams.

  Rene Descartes

  Dream, Perfect, Body

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• We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out.

  Henry Watson Fowler

  Children, Political, Coats

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• You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Men, Long

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• Prayer works in the mind as a healing force. It calms the patient, enlightens the physician, guides the surgeon, and it often victoriously applies the power of the spirit when all seems lost. It proves, over and over again, the truth of Tennyson's words: "More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of." Prayer puts us on God's side. It aligns us with life's higher purposes, aims, and ideals. Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Dream, Prayer, Healing

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• Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. And you don't have to be a poet or a philosopher to know which is best.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Attitude, Fate, People

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• To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money, is not acceptable because it is not realistic. I am thinking as I believe we must think if we wish to discuss the best uses of people, places, and things, and if we wish to give affection some standing in our thoughts.

  Wendell Berry

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth”, p.80, Counterpoint Press

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• We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions.

  Robert Edmond Jones

  Dream, Lying, Independent

  Robert Edmond Jones (2004). “The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue”, p.1, Routledge

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• The longer I live the more I am convinced that neither age nor circumstance needs to deprive us of energy and vitality. We are at last awakening to the close relationship between religion and health. . . .our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Emotional, Age, Awakening

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• If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely.

  Betty Eadie

  Power Of Words, Understood, Ifs

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• In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.

  Betty Eadie

  Strength, Weakness, Thoughts And Words

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• The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.

  Philip James Bailey

  Men, Giving, Advice

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.187

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• To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Easy, Threshold

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.75

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• We are so absorbed in our thoughts that every thought that comes through is a reality. We have to start to detach ourselves from thought and become aware that there are things beyond thought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Mindfulness

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• Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Mind

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