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“The more we live from heaven to earth—that is, the more we orient and adjust our lives to take eternity into account—the healthier and happier our souls will be.”
― How's Your Soul?: Why Everything that Matters Starts with the Inside You
― How's Your Soul?: Why Everything that Matters Starts with the Inside You
“It’s far too easy to make life all about the outside me, the external me, the physical me. We fall into the trap that if we can be healthy, wealthy, popular, productive, and influential, then life will be good. So we throw ourselves into the chase, thinking that internal happiness will come from external success. If we just try hard enough, if we just wait long enough, if we just reach the next level, we will feel at peace.”
― How's Your Soul?: Why Everything that Matters Starts with the Inside You
― How's Your Soul?: Why Everything that Matters Starts with the Inside You
“The problem isn’t lack of love. It’s impossible expectations. It’s the belief that our souls can find ultimate satisfaction and strength by anchoring themselves to another human soul. But person after person lets us down because their souls are hurting too. We tie ourselves to each other, then we both end up nearly drowned by the storms of life. We squabble and complain, “Why haven’t you saved me yet?” And the other yells back, “I don’t know! I thought you were going to help me!”
― How's Your Soul?: Why Everything that Matters Starts with the Inside You
― How's Your Soul?: Why Everything that Matters Starts with the Inside You
“Do you want to live an effective life? It’s not as complicated as some might say it is. First, yield to God, your Creator and your Father. Turn over control of your ways and your days to him. And second, receive from the community that God puts around you. It’s that simple. Stay surrendered and stay surrounded.”
― How's Your Soul?: Why Everything that Matters Starts with the Inside You
― How's Your Soul?: Why Everything that Matters Starts with the Inside You
“So here are my questions and my appeal to you as we talk about a healthy soul. Are you intentional about your friends? Are they helping you? Do you fit together? Yes, I think we should live big. We should draw big circles, be inclusive, be forgiving, and be kind—but we can’t be intimate friends with all seven billion people on this planet. We can’t be close friends with a few thousand people. Probably not even a few hundred people. Realistically, we might be close, intimate friends with only a dozen people. Maybe a few more or a few less, depending on our individual capacities and personalities. So we had better choose those people intentionally, carefully, and prayerfully.”
― How's Your Soul?: Why Everything that Matters Starts with the Inside You
― How's Your Soul?: Why Everything that Matters Starts with the Inside You
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