Psychologists say that 10,000 thoughts go through the human mind in one day. That is 3,500,000 a year! If we must give an account of every idle word, how many would that be! If any man is judged according to the things recorded in his life, he will be condemned! - Paul Tan in Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations: Signs of the Times , p. 2960

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man. - Cicero

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. - James Allen

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably why so few engage in it. - Henry Ford, Sr.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests. - Albert Jay Nock

It is good to rub and polish our minds against those of others. - Michel de Montaigne

In the long run the sword is beaten by the mind. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A mindless Christianity will produce a spineless Christianity - Joel R. Beeke in Whatever Happened to the Reformation? - ed. by Johnson and White, p. 245

Where there is little difference between the Christian and the non-Christian in what we think and believe, there will soon be little difference in how we live. - Joel R. Beeke in Whatever Happened to the Reformation? - ed. by Johnson and White, p. 246

Puritan preaching addressed the mind with clarity. It addressed man as a rational creature. The Puritans loved and worshiped God with their minds. They viewed the mind as the palace of faith. They refused to set mind and heart against each other, but taught that knowledge was the soil in which the Spirit planted the seed of regeneration. Puritans thus preached that we need to think in order to be holy. - Joel R. Beeke in Whatever Happened to the Reformation? - ed. By Johnson and White - p. 245