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The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart. — Timothy Keller
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church today… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Even the best of Christians are troubled by the question, "Why does an almighty God send, or at least allow, suffering?" When you are nagged… — Richard Wurmbrand
Empty your mind of all thoughts. — Laozi
The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no… — William Wordsworth
The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule;… — Emile M. Cioran
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. — Alan Perlis
It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological… — Albert Einstein
... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the… — Albert Einstein
If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Thoughts are not subject to duty. — Martin Luther
You must learn that if you are a Christian, you will without a doubt experience all kinds of opposition and evil inclinations in the flesh.… — Martin Luther
The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last… — Samuel Johnson
Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts. — George Santayana
Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to… — Lord Chesterfield
To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die. — Walter Raleigh
There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words… — Charles Kingsley
I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its… — Wallace Stevens
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick — Ben Jonson
God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with… — Lucy Larcom
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, this is madness. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts… — Helen Fielding
The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how… — Gilbert Highet
People were always asking for good sound proofs; doubt springs eternal in the human breast, even in countries where the Inquisition can read your very… — Thornton Wilder
Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness --… — Dag Hammarskjold

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