Winning the War in Your Mind Quotes

“OUR LIVES ARE ALWAYS MOVING IN THE DIRECTION OF OUR strongest thoughts. What we think shapes who we are.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“a lie believed as truth will affect your life as if it were true.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. —2 TIMOTHY 1:7 NKJV”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Satan is not very creative. He is very repetitive. He knows that if he tells you a lie often enough, you will eventually believe it.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“I swat at the swarm of thoughts flitting around my head and remember that I am not a victim of my own mind. I have power over my thoughts. I am not captive to them. With God’s help, I can make them captive to me.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“One more time, because this point is crucial: a lie believed as truth will affect your life as if it were true.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“your mind is a battlefield, and the battle for your life is always won or lost in your mind.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“YOU CANNOT CHANGE WHAT YOU DO NOT CONFRONT.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“So if both the Bible and modern science teach us that our lives are moving in the direction of our strongest thoughts, then we need to ask ourselves, “Do I like the direction my thoughts are taking me?”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Social psychologists have a name for taking control of how we perceive things. They call it cognitive reframing.6 It’s when we learn to identify and correct irrational thinking. We could say this happens when we unbias our bias.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Social psychologists have a name for our distorted lenses. They call it a cognitive bias. The term refers to a standardized, consistent pattern of deviating from reality in how we see and process things. If you have a cognitive bias, you create a subjective reality. That construction of your reality, not actual reality, will dictate how you respond and behave in the world.5”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“quickly discovered I could not speak French and found myself doing a bad Pepé Le Pew impersonation, saying with a pathetic French accent, “Oh, mon chéri. The devotion. The longing. How about you stop resisting me and I’ll stop resisting you?” (If you’re under, say, thirtyish, just search for “Pepé Le Pew” on YouTube for your animated enlightenment.)”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“The journey to your destiny starts with your thoughts. The right thoughts lead to the right life. Automatically. Zig Ziglar said, “Repetition is the mother of learning and the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Automaticity is the ability to do things without thinking about what you are doing. When repetition allows an action to become unconscious, automatic.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Increasingly research proves that the way to get someone to believe a lie is to simply repeat the lie.3 Psychologists call this the illusory truth effect. It’s been called a glitch in the human psyche.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Well, why do cows ruminate on their cud? Because it allows them to get the maximum amount of nutrition out of the grass. Why do we meditate on God’s truth and God’s love and God’s great deeds? One reason is because it allows us to get the maximum amount of spiritual nutrition out of our godly thoughts.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“That is the exact idea behind the word meditate. Meditating is taking a thought—in our case a Bible verse or a declaration based on God’s Word—and chewing on it, then swallowing it, then bringing it back to mind and chewing on it some more. Then we swallow it again, then bring it back to mind and chew on it more. We do that over and over and over. We aren’t talking about casual Bible reading; we mean repeatedly taking in every word, the meaning, and the context.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Cows get a mouthful of grass, chew it up, swallow it, throw it back up in their mouths, chew it some more, swallow it again, throw it back up into their mouths again, chew it some more, swallow it again, throw it back up again, chew it more, swallow it again. They do this over and over and over. That is what it means to ruminate.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“In Joshua 1:8, Psalm 1:2, and at least six other passages in the Psalms, God tells us to ruminate. The word meditate in these verses is the same as the word ruminate. What does ruminate mean? Rumination is what cows do with their cud. (Sorry, this is where things get weird.)”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Eastern meditation is an emptying of your mind. What I’m suggesting—what the Bible calls for—is the opposite. Christian meditation is filling your mind with God’s truth, being strategic and deliberate about what you allow into your mind.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“If the information will keep us alive, prevent problems, avert danger, or bring pleasure, the RAS is activated. It’s your brain’s system for filtering through all the data in your life and allowing you to focus on what’s most pertinent and ignore the rest.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Again, neural pathways are brain ruts.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“This is not something you do once. This is something you will have to do thousands of times in your life, maybe dozens of times a day. The definition of a principle is a decision you make once and then live by.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“The verb tense of “take captive” in the original language of the Bible implies a repeated and continuous action.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“And if God paid the price of his only son for me, I have infinite value regardless of what other people think of me.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Jesus’ clear example, detailed for us in Matthew 4, is why it is essential that we know the Bible.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Rom. 12:2).”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“To bring down your strongholds, it’s time to go up. As a child of God, you have access to everything that belongs to your heavenly Father. So look up, go up, and access the power God has that you need to remove lies and replace them with truth. Ask him to show you the lies that you have believed for too long. Tell him you want your mind to be filled with his truths instead of the devil’s falsehoods. And then thank him for hearing you.”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Yet again Paul taught us the concept: “I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead” (Eph. 1:19–20 NLT).”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life