How do images affect our thinking?

In The Genius of Temptation, Michelle McKinney Hammond writes, “These things of the world go in through our eyes and ears, lodge in our hearts, and come back out of our mouths. Once repeated, they’re filed in our minds, where they settle comfortably into our subconscious. And each of these things waits for the right moment to rise up and superimpose itself over a thought that has left a convenient space to accommodate it. The next step we take is to put that thought into action.” We mustn’t allow ourselves to be led on by the googoo-eyed thrill of flirting with improper thinking that leads to disaster. That’s a trap that Satan loves to set.