The Mind of Christ Quotes

“The mind that is alive chooses the spiritual rather than the fleshly. For example, take our thought life. The world sends a constant barrage of messages to us—politics, world, business, sex, sports, products, and others. God also is sending us messages, messages about His expressed will in the Bible for us, promptings about words to say or not to say, anger to control, or patience to extend.”
― T.W. Hunt, The Mind of Christ: The Transforming Power of Thinking His Thoughts

“Would it appall you or delight you if Christ revealed your thoughts? We unconsciously assume that our outer, physical, visible actions are going to be the basis for our judgment. In the Bible, though, God places the emphasis on the inner, invisible actions of the mind.”
― T.W. Hunt, The Mind of Christ: The Transforming Power of Thinking His Thoughts

“Freedom from bondage to sin is not accomplished by will power, but by the grace of the Holy Spirit.”
― T.W. Hunt, The Mind of Christ: The Transforming Power of Thinking His Thoughts

“Satan knows that if he can get our attention for five seconds, he may have our mind for five minutes!”
― T.W. Hunt, The Mind of Christ: The Transforming Power of Thinking His Thoughts

“Believers know that we are dead without Christ and have everlasting life in Him, but Jesus went further than saying we have mere existence: He said that He came so that we might have abundant life (John 10:10). We show this life (or death) constantly by the choices we make.”
― T.W. Hunt, The Mind of Christ: The Transforming Power of Thinking His Thoughts

“Real repentance involves sharing the grief of God over our sin.”
― T.W. Hunt, The Mind of Christ: The Transforming Power of Thinking His Thoughts

“Genuine conversion means a change of life and especially a change with our attitude toward sin.”
― T.W. Hunt, The Mind of Christ: The Transforming Power of Thinking His Thoughts

“Philippians 2:5 tells us that we are to have the mind of Christ. This verse is part of a poem (Phil. 2:5–11) that was originally a hymn.1 This verse says that we are to think like Jesus thinks. In the original Greek, the command is in the form of the verb phroneite, the plural imperative of the verb phroneo, “to think or to be minded in a certain way.” Our mind is to have the same characteristics that Christ's mind has.”
― T.W. Hunt, The Mind of Christ: The Transforming Power of Thinking His Thoughts

“After redemption was accomplished, the New Testament picks up the theme from the opening chapters of the Bible, and once more we are to be like God. Paul said, “Put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness” (Eph. 4:24 NIV, emphasis added). The purpose of the new self is Godlikeness. He told the Colossians, “[You] have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator” (Col. 3:10 NIV, emphasis added). In redemption, we are again in the image of God.”
― T.W. Hunt, The Mind of Christ: The Transforming Power of Thinking His Thoughts

“Most of us, most of the time, are satisfied if we satisfy the expectations of society and the requirements of God by our outer, visible actions. God looks on the inner; He said, as early as Samuel's day, that “man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart” (1 Sam. 16:7).”
― T.W. Hunt, The Mind of Christ: The Transforming Power of Thinking His Thoughts

“man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart” (1 Sam. 16:7).”
― T.W. Hunt, The Mind of Christ: The Transforming Power of Thinking His Thoughts