America has become politically and culturally agnostic, and the Christian faith in the minds of many has come to represent intolerance.
God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.
Kirtan is for all people. There are no experts, no beginners. The practice itself is the teacher, guiding us to ourselves. Kirtan allows us to enter into a mystery world-a world where all the logic of our minds, all the condition and learning are left outside. And in this mystery, we create a temple inside of our hearts, a place of refuge, a place of love, a place of just being.
Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.
Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.
Great minds think for themselves.
It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it.
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination
The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.
There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.
Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them.
One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
No other religion, no other, promises new bodies, hearts, and minds. Only in the gospel of Christ do hurting people find such incredible hope.
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it in the shades of privacy.
We can't always fix our circumstances, but we can fix our minds on God
When you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; (i. e. ) those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.
We tend to believe in the modern secular world that if you tell someone something once, they'll remember it. . . . Religions go, "Nonsense. You need to keep repeating the lesson 10 times a day. So get on your knees and repeat it. " That's what all religions tell us: "Get on your knees and repeat it 10 or 20 or 15 times a day. " Otherwise our minds are like sieves.
Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.