Christopher Cook > Quotes

“Change is not, then, a matter of “magical” thinking or waving a “wand”—it is about pushing ideas, building movements, and challenging the status quo.”
― Christopher Cook

“The day you decide that the pain of regret is greater than the pain of change is the day you’ll take a first step toward the process of transformation to wholeness.”
― Christopher Cook, Healing What You Can't Erase: Transform Your Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health from the Inside Out

“Our secularized postmodern culture has built the concepts of self-creation and self-healing into a house and wants you to take up residence in it. But because the house lacks a foundation, it will fall. It’s just a matter of time.”
― Christopher Cook, Healing What You Can't Erase: Transform Your Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health from the Inside Out

“Everything within me wants to show my best “pretend self” to both other people and God. This is my false self—the self of my own making. This self can never be transformed, because it is never willing to receive love in vulnerability. —David G. Benner, Surrender to Love”
― Christopher Cook, Healing What You Can't Erase: Transform Your Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health from the Inside Out

“There is no magic wand to accomplish change. No one can promise change—he or she can only make it possible. What makes change happen, history and current U.S. politics show, is principled and courageous commitment and integrity.”
― Christopher Cook