Double Minded Quotes

• All the world over it is true that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, like a wave on the streamlet, tossed hither and thither with every eddy of its tide. A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.

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  William Morley Punshon

  Men   Double Minded   Tides  

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• Empathy occurs when we suspend our single-minded focus of attention and instead adopt a double-minded foucus of attention. When our attention lapses into single focus, empathy has been turned off. When we shift our attention to dual focus empathy has been turned on. Empathy is our ability to identify what someone else is thinking or feeling and to respond to there thought or feelings with an approriate emotion. Empathy makes the other person feel valued, enabling them to feel that their thoughts and feelings have been heard.

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  Simon Baron-Cohen

  Thinking   Double Minded   Focus  

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• A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.

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  Joseph Joubert

  Eye   Double Minded   Duplicity  

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Are you unstable about your relationship to Christ?

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  Billy Graham

  Men   Double Minded   Choices  

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• Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

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  Martha Stewart

  Success   Double Minded   Open Minded  

  "Martha Stewart: I Asked Her Nothing; She Tells Me Everything". Interview with Lauren Cahn, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2014.

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• Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.

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  Ellen G. White

  Christian   Heart   Double Minded  

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