Thoughts Matter

Thoughts Matter

            One thing that we all have in common, regardless of our health, intelligence or our nationality, is THINK.  Generally we don’t pay much attention to what we are thinking. A million thoughts flit through our mind and we hardly notice. What was in your mind just before you started to read this? Bet you can’t remember. That poses a problem. Sometimes an incipient thought sneaks in. We don’t throw it out in the beginning, because we aren’t aware of it. So it grows. Before we know what happened we are wondering, “What did he mean by that remark?” And planning revenge for something that didn’t bother us in the least at the time it was said.

            Thoughts are more important than we realize. Jesus told us, “You are what you think.” He also warned us that we have to think before we can act. This means that if we lust in our heart or hate anyone, we are guilty of the act, even if we are the only ones who know what we are thinking. We need to control our thoughts before they take control of us. I have collected quotes that will impress on you how your thinking affects your life.

“Finally, beloved, whatsoever is true…and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.” Phillippians 4:8

“Take heart daughter; your faith (thought; belief) has made thee well.” Matthew 9:22

We are bound by nothing but belief

A problem cannot be solved by the mind that created it

Every thought will be accounted for

As thou believed, so be it done to thee/ What I have greatly feared has come upon me

The mind is its own place; and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven

The world of the mind is just as real as the physical world

You have three choices in life, Give up, Give in, or Give it all that you’ve got

Anger is a feeling (Thought) that makes your mouth work faster than your mind

Sow a good thought and reap a revelation

What a man thinks is the way he acts

The walls of fear that have stopped you in the past, are stories you tell yourself in your mind

Out thought pool is more important than our gene pool

Different thought-Different outcome

Fear thoughts are the cheapest rooms in the house

Spiritual forces act through exalted thoughts

When the belief (thought) in the power of disease is destroyed; disease cannot return

If a thing is so, it will work; if a thing is true it can be demonstrated

We need to separate Truth; God’s Reality; from the truth as we humanly comprehend it from our human point of view

Education and training must be in Reality.

We must guard against all forms of mistaken thoughts

Today is the tomorrow you visualized when you stood in yesterday’s ruins

Stand is awe upon a ‘new planet’ in inner space

Reality is not something to reach for, but a Truth to accept in your thought

We live in a world not of real things, but of opinions, fantasy and false thoughts

Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ

There is no such thing as violating a spiritual law with impunity

Everything is good or bad according to your thought about it

The mind contains the event that befalls it

God IS. You cannot make a mental image of “IS”

Nothing in the outer form is the determining factor

Nobody is the victim of anything but the ignorance of the laws of God

Ask yourself whether the mind that was in Christ Jesus was inside his brain; inside his body; or did it come from God’s Mind?

The outer is but the image held within

A mind expanded by a new idea can never return to its former dimension

Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap and what measure ye mete it shall be measured to ye again

Seek, find and follow a pure line of thought

Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good and the true and these things will come into your experience proportionally to their occupancy of your thought

Men live in a world of illusion peopled by phantoms of their own creation

For everything we see, everything we hear, everything that we become aware of through any of our senses first existed as a thought in the mind of a thinking being

What if raising our consciousness is really about up-grading the Divine in ourselves

These things called sin and disease are not what we are suffering from: they are the forms error assumes

Few realize to what extent they are blinded by superstitions orthodoxy

We have failed to perceive the presence of an inner law capable of establishing and maintaining our outer welfare

There is nothing from which we can ever suffer but the acceptance of illusion as reality

Prayer is the awareness of that which IS by ‘seeing’ it not making it so

Do not try to fit answered prayer into the mold of human desire

If there is no change in our consciousness there will be no change in our outer experience, because that which is in consciousness comes forth as manifestation

The peace within becomes the harmony without

            You may want to put these on your mirror and think about them

            898 words       Loretta Ellen Edwards

Reviews

[Moomin]

I enjoyed your article. You made me think (no pun intended) about many things, both scriptural and other. Some of the translations you use give me a new perspective on the Biblical passages, thank you for that. I followed your train of thought and found it involving. You link many passages from the Bible with the concept of thought and awareness. It is a strong marker for the Bible's superior wisdom. You write well, with a constructive, analytical approach.

If I may offer one slight criticism?, you merge secular thoughts and quotes with Biblical ones. This confused me and detracted from your theme. Otherwise, well written.

All the best,

Moomin