“We can’t stand at a distance from our own soul and ask Christ to ‘go in there and deal with it.’ This isn’t hostage negotiation; we don’t hide a block away and hope God takes care of business. This is your own soul we’re talking about; the door opens from the inside.”- John Eldredge “Here […]
“Your soul is the vessel God fills, yet there is no room for him to fill if your soul is wrung out, twisted, haggard, fried. Put another way, your hands cannot receive a gift while they are still tightly clenched. This is the condition we are trying to recover from and avoid further commerce with. […]
” . . . obsessions occupy space in your soul that belongs to God. If these preoccupations squeeze God out, you’ll carry an emptiness inside that’ll never go away. . . . When everything else but God saturates my soul, it gets sick because it’s starving for God’s love.”- Bob Merritt “With my whole being, […]
“The best way to bring healing to the soul is to let the Spirit of God work in our mental symbols, memories, and imagination. . . . Our imagination gives us access to our most painful, anxious experiences and feelings in a way that allows objectivity in the healing process.”- Dr. Rick Richardson, Experiencing Healing […]
“If you have a big question mark hanging out in your soul, maybe one that has to do with faith, vocation, or relationships, perhaps your next right thing is to take a break from your frantic search for answers and look around for arrows instead.”- Emily P. Freeman Emily P. Freeman concludes Chapter 5 of […]
“The silence serves as a colander, helping me discern what I need to hold on to and allowing what I don’t need to fall gently away, making space to access courage and creativity, quieting to hear the voice of God.”- Emily P. Freeman Emily P. Freeman concludes Chapter 2 of The Next Right Thing as […]
“There should be no disconnect between spiritual and intellectual pursuits. The mind and soul are not enemies. They are allies. I don’t think you can be spiritual, in the truest sense of the word, without being intellectual. And I don’t think you can be intellectual, in the truest sense of the word, without being spiritual. […]
“We need those (thirty minutes of silence in heaven) moments of silence on this side of the space-time continuum too. It’s one way we nurture a sense of wonder. Blaise Pascal, the seventeenth-century French philosopher, went so far as to say, ‘All of man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a […]
“If loving God with all our heart means a heart that breaks for the things of God, then loving God with all our soul means a soul full of wonder, a soul flooded with the glory of God, a soul awed by beauty and majesty, a soul that hallows God above all else.”- Mark Batterson […]
“You’ll be tempted to think God has left you in the dark night of your soul. But he hasn’t. Like a surgeon, he’s operating. And when you surrender to him, it works for your good and his glory. This season in your life doesn’t have to end in defeat. And when you surrender it to […]
“Cynicism grows beyond its infancy when your start to protect yourself from future hurt. Having been burned once or twice, you tell yourself only fools get burned three times. So you start to guard your heart. You shelter your soul.”- Carey Nieuwhof Carey Nieuwhof concludes Chapter 1 of Didn’t See It Coming as he talks […]
“How do we explain God’s abhorrence of the haughty heart? Simple. God resists the proud because the proud resist God. Arrogance stiffens the knee so it will not kneel, hardens the heart so it will not admit to sin. . . . Indeed, the arrogant never feel the need for forgiveness. Pride is the […]