Quotes About Spirituality

Our churches are filled with "leaking" Christians who have not treated their emotions as a discipleship issue.

no other person has ever lived your life. You may be wondering what will happen if you engage in this journey of emotionally healthy spirituality, if you take seriously God's purpose for you to increasingly live faithfully out of the life he has given you.

God never asks us to annihilate the self. We are not to become "non-persons" when we become Christians. The very opposite is true. God intends our deeper, truer self, which he created, to blossom as we follow him.

In what ways does my current pace of life and leadership enhance or diminish my ability to allow God's will and presence full scope in my life?

Our wisdom . . . consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Jesus shows us that healthy Christians do not avoid conflict. His life was filled with it! He was in regular conflict with the religious leaders, the crowds, the disciples—even his own family. Out of a desire to bring true peace, Jesus disrupted the false peace all around him. He refused to spiritualize conflict avoidance.

there is nothing we can do or not do that would cause God to love us any more than he does right now.

We are transferred out of darkness into the kingdom of light.

Scripture reveals God as an emotional being who feels—a Person.

Few killer viruses are more difficult to discern than this one. On the surface all appears to be healthy and working, but it's not. All those hours and hours spent lost in one Christian book after another . . . all those many Christian responsibilities outside the home or going from one seminar to another . . . all that extra time in prayer and Bible study. . . . At times we use these Christian activities as an unconscious attempt to escape from pain. In

God thinks. You think. God wills. You will. God feels. You feel.

You are a human being made in God's likeness.

Our goal is the same: union with God in Christ, transformation into his image, and the freeing of our hearts from anything that stands in the way of Christ living in and through us.

the activity of my life ("doing" for Jesus) began to eclipse the contemplative dimension of my life ("being" with Jesus).

I was engaged in more activity for God than my being with God could sustain.

No other religion in the world reveals a personal God who loves us for who we are, not what we do.

To become a Christian and to be adopted into God's family with the new name of "Christian" does not erase the past. God does not give us amnesia or do emergency emotional/spiritual reconstructive surgery. God does forgive the past, but he does not erase it. We are given a new start, but we still come in as babies drinking milk and are expected to die daily to the parts of our lives that do not honor God and follow Jesus.

God intends that we mature in learning to recognize how he speaks and guides us through our feelings.

Emotions are the language of the soul.

Jesus shows us that healthy Christians do not avoid conflict. His life was filled with it! He was in regular conflict with the religious leaders, the crowds, the disciples—even his own family. Out of a desire to bring true peace, Jesus disrupted the false peace all around him. He refused to "spiritualize away" conflict. 8.

twenty-four hours) to rest and delight in God.

The Four Principles of Biblical Sabbath

It is essential that we reflect on the messages that were handed down to us, submitting them to Christ and his Word.

The core spiritual issue in stopping revolves around trust. Will God take care of us and our concerns if we obey him by stopping to keep the Sabbath?