Judith

“. Drawing Battle Lines 8. Holding Space for Silence
I Choose to Be Still with God 9. Lifelines
I Choose to Be Known 10. Unafraid
I Choose to Surrender My Fears to God 11. A Beautiful Interruption
I Choose to Delight in God 12. Less Important
I Choose to Serve God and Others 13. Not Overcome
I Choose to Be Grateful 14. Run Your Race
I Choose to Seek the Good of Others”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“Can you imagine how ineffective Jesus’s ministry appeared to be, except when He did miracles? Most days He was just eating meals with sinners, telling people stories that didn’t totally make sense, and ticking off the influential religious people. Then He got killed, which really looks like a ministry fail! Yet God was up to something, and Jesus knew His ultimate purpose. So He didn’t care what His ministry looked like to the people around Him, and neither should we. Who are we to judge what God is up to? Who are we to judge whether it’s effective for the kingdom of God?”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“One God-honoring thought has the potential to change the trajectory of both history and eternity. Just as one uninterrupted lie in my head has the potential to bring about unimaginable destruction in the world around me.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts