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Sermon Illustrations: Thinking & Thoughts

Harvard researcher Robert Rosenthal studied how you can make people successful just by labelling them as such. Students were randomly assigned to two groups, "high potentials" and "low potentials". And those singled out as successful … were. Reader's Digest June 2006 p 127

Deliberate thinking is for doing better than just coping. Everyone can run, but an athlete runs deliberately and is trained for that purpose.1

I can't stop a bird from flying over my head, but I sure can stop him from making a nest in my hair! John Wesley

Set a sentry over the lid of your heart, and don't open it indiscriminately. Do not allow entry to poisons, toxins, robbers and thieves. Judge every thought, and if it is unfit for your attention, flush it! We do that with other waste matter, so why not for wasteful thoughts?2

1 De Bono, Edward Six Thinking Hats p 11
2 Cordeiro, Wayne Attitudes That Attract Success p88