Debby Sibert > Quotes

“Since love is a choice, it's also controllable.”
― Debby Sibert, Choose Wisely - A 31 Day Devotional: Learn How to Make Choices to Transform Your Life

“Patience is defined as: "the state of endurance under difficult circumstances, which can mean persevering in the face of delay or provocation without negatively acting on annoyance or anger.”
― Debby Sibert, Choose Wisely - A 31 Day Devotional: Learn How to Make Choices to Transform Your Life

“often sabotage ourselves with our negative thoughts and limiting beliefs, so we need to change our way of thinking.”
― Debby Sibert, Choose Wisely - A 31 Day Devotional: Learn How to Make Choices to Transform Your Life

“and some as a spiritual battle, declares in Psalm 34:17-19 “When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.”
― Debby Sibert, God's Antidote For Depression, Anxiety, or Fear: Learn How To Experience Peace and Joy During Adversity and Uncertain Times

“we can unlearn with the correct practices. Anxiety focuses on negativity and limiting beliefs that can be counteracted by practicing gratitude regarding those things you are genuinely grateful for, no matter how small or insignificant they may seem.”
― Debby Sibert, Choose Wisely - A 31 Day Devotional: Learn How to Make Choices to Transform Your Life

“The way we think affects how we feel, and how we feel affects the way we behave. If we want to change the way we act, we must go back and change our thoughts and choices. If you are feeling angry, for example, it's because you are choosing angry thoughts. We can't change our feelings, but we can change our thoughts that are creating those feelings.”
― Debby Sibert, Choose Wisely - A 31 Day Devotional: Learn How to Make Choices to Transform Your Life

“John 16:33: "I have said these things to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world, you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world,”
― Debby Sibert, Choose Wisely - A 31 Day Devotional: Learn How to Make Choices to Transform Your Life

“Forgiveness is not just a "one-time" event but an ongoing process of mentally letting it go.”
― Debby Sibert, Choose Wisely - A 31 Day Devotional: Learn How to Make Choices to Transform Your Life

“Gratitude gets us through the hard stuff. To reflect on your blessings is to rehearse God’s accomplishments.”
― Debby Sibert, Choose Wisely - A 31 Day Devotional: Learn How to Make Choices to Transform Your Life

“We need to understand that internal peace is not dependent on our circumstances. Peace comes in knowing that God's grace is sufficient and will sustain us even in our most difficult situations. It's not the absence of pressure, but the presence of God and our attitude toward His provision, during our stress.”
― Debby Sibert, Choose Wisely - A 31 Day Devotional: Learn How to Make Choices to Transform Your Life

“No matter how deep our darkness, He is deeper still.”
― Debby Sibert, Choose Wisely - A 31 Day Devotional: Learn How to Make Choices to Transform Your Life

“1 John 3:18 tells us, "Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth." Love is a verb, and it's a decision, not just a feeling.”
― Debby Sibert, Choose Wisely - A 31 Day Devotional: Learn How to Make Choices to Transform Your Life

“Not forgiving someone is like drinking poison, hoping that that the other person will die.”
― Debby Sibert, Choose Wisely - A 31 Day Devotional: Learn How to Make Choices to Transform Your Life

“We cannot control many of the challenges and disappointments we face for sure, but we also do not have to be held captive to them. We can control how we respond to them.”
― Debby Sibert, Choose Wisely - A 31 Day Devotional: Learn How to Make Choices to Transform Your Life

“If you don't feel like loving someone, you can still step out in faith and show love as a chosen course of action. Love is giving someone what they need the most when they deserve it the least, quite possibly at a high personal cost. We cannot force a feeling, but we can think and act lovingly, and then our feelings will follow—at least over time.”
― Debby Sibert, Choose Wisely - A 31 Day Devotional: Learn How to Make Choices to Transform Your Life

“The real test of complete forgiveness is the ability to pray for God's blessing of the person we have forgiven—the person who wronged us.”
― Debby Sibert, Choose Wisely - A 31 Day Devotional: Learn How to Make Choices to Transform Your Life

“You may have noticed that the most unlovable and most challenging to love people you run into are those who need love the most.”
― Debby Sibert, Choose Wisely - A 31 Day Devotional: Learn How to Make Choices to Transform Your Life

“Jesus first, Others second, Yourself last.”
― Debby Sibert, Choose Wisely - A 31 Day Devotional: Learn How to Make Choices to Transform Your Life

“We can't truly love God when we are withholding love from others in our lives. The more we are "in love" with Jesus, the more capacity we will have to love anyone in our life.”
― Debby Sibert, Choose Wisely - A 31 Day Devotional: Learn How to Make Choices to Transform Your Life

“A grateful heart sees each day as a gift, and thankful people focus less on what they lack and more on the privileges they have. The grateful heart is much like a magnet sweeping over the day, collecting reasons to be thankful.”
― Debby Sibert, Choose Wisely - A 31 Day Devotional: Learn How to Make Choices to Transform Your Life

“The best way to change our neurochemistry, elevate our mood, and decrease the amount of cortisol in our body, is to elevate the corners of our mouth. All we have to do to lower the cortisol, the stress in our body is to smile.” That’s easy to do when practicing gratitude.”
― Debby Sibert, Choose Wisely - A 31 Day Devotional: Learn How to Make Choices to Transform Your Life

“Jesus chose to die for us. The least we can do is to choose to live for Him. Live honorably, love completely, and choose wisely. Make wise choices today.”
― Debby Sibert, Choose Wisely - A 31 Day Devotional: Learn How to Make Choices to Transform Your Life

“Just as a side note, have you noticed that the “Fruit of the Spirit” is singular and not plural? It’s not referred to as the “fruits” of the Spirit. We are not to pick and choose the fruit we like and disregard what we don’t. They come as a package, and over time, as we mature in our faith and deepen our commitment and walk with the Lord, they should become present and active in our lives.”
― Debby Sibert, Choose Wisely - A 31 Day Devotional: Learn How to Make Choices to Transform Your Life