Amanda

“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.”
― Judah Smith, How's Your Soul?: Why Everything that Matters Starts with the Inside You

“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.”
― Judah Smith, 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.”
― Judah Smith, How's Your Soul?: Why Everything that Matters Starts with the Inside You

“An effective life is first and foremost a surrendered life.”
― Judah Smith, How's Your Soul?: Why Everything that Matters Starts with the Inside You