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• To say that we are able by our own efforts to think good thoughts or give God spiritual obedience before we are spiritually regenerate is to overthrow the gospel and the faith of the universal church in all ages.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Thinking, Giving

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• If you are feeling good , it is because you are thinking good thoughts .

  Rhonda Byrne

  Thinking, Feel Good, Feelings

  Rhonda Byrne (2008). “The Secret”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• ...all of a sudden I felt filled up again, so that my heart might come up my throat. And I was thinking how that can come over you, out of nowhere, and if it wasn't such a fine feeling, it might almost be frightening. Like there's more love and good thoughts and powerful things inside of you than one body can hold.

  Katherine Hannigan

  Powerful, Heart, Thinking

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• Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.

  James Allen

  Simple, Law, World

  James Allen (2010). “As You Think: Second Edition”, p.42, New World Library

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• Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions. Jesus repeatedly emphasized the power of good thoughts and proper motives: 'Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not' In Proverbs we read, 'For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Heart, Doubt

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• Men lose their birthrights for a mess of pottage only if they stop using the gifts given them by God for their betterment. By prayer. That is the first and greatest gift. Use the gift of prayer. Ask for strength of mind, and a clear vision. Then sense. Use your sense. … Think long and well. By prayer and good thought you will conquer all enemies.

  Richard Llewellyn

  Prayer, Men, Thinking

  Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline and training is all about.

  James Clavell

  Thinking, Discipline, Effort

  James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.94, Dell

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• It’s harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5 years old again for an hour. I want to laugh a lot and cry a lot. I want to be picked or rocked to sleep in someone’s arms, and carried up to be just one more time. I know what I really want for Christmas: I want my childhood back. People who think good thoughts give good gifts.

  Robert Fulghum

  Sleep, Thinking, Years

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• A lamp kept on mound illumines the area; if kept in a pit, it is as if it were not. A virtue that is practised is a lamp that shines for all; good thoughts and good deeds have a way of influencing others. The gems of wisdom, the light of intuitive experience should not be kept away from fellow - men. They have to be shared, even at the cost od one's life. That was the lesson Jesus taught and symbolised.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Jesus, Men, Light

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• We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

  Cesare Pavese

  Thinking, Deeds, Good Deeds

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.113, Transaction Publishers

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• Do not be satisfied with the speech of your lips and the thought in your heart, all the promises and good sayings in your mouth, and all the good thoughts in your heart; rather you must arise and do!

  Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

  Heart, Promise, Mouths

  "The Season of the Witch: Le Couer Dechire" by Etienne De Mendes, (p. 545), 2008.

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• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

  Winston Churchill

  Memories, Book, Men

  My Early Life ch. 9 (1930)

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• Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. Let the world praise or blame you. Let all the wealth of the earth come to your feet, or let you be made the poorest on earth. Let death come this moment or hundreds of years hence. Swerve not from the path you have taken. All good thoughts are immortal and go to make Buddhas and Christs.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Taken, Years

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• A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Degrees, Next, Firsts

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.169

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• I who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as knowing the rewards of Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have power and strength, teach men to seek after Right. I have become an alien in a foreign land.

  Zoroaster

  Teaching, Heart, Men

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• An enlightened person has real power and when they think a good thought, the tremendous power of attention causes their students to actually lift up into those states. It brings a power into their lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Real, Thinking

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• He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself. The judicious quoter, too, helps on what is much needed in the world, a freer circulation of good thoughts, pure feelings, and pleasant fancies.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Feelings, News, World

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.124

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• Our hearts are the shrine; that is where God should be installed. Our good thoughts are the flowers to worship Him. Good deeds form the worship, good words form the hymns and love forms the offering.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Flower, Heart, Offering

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• Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Action, Follow Through

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• Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life — if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer — if ever I wished a righteous wish — I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Expectations

  "Jane Eyre: Enhanced with an Excerpt from The Madwoman Upstairs".

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• What use is a good thought if no one agrees with it?

  Paul Muni

  Use, Agree, Ifs

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• The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Return

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it's worship. Such form is its real form.

  Bodhidharma

  Real, Mean, Humility

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.105, Macmillan

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• Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.

  Martin Seligman

  Positive Thinking, Work Out, Optimism

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• Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Enlightenment, Action

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