Judith

“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

“As theologian and emeritus professor D. A. Carson has observed, 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.1”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“LIE: I’ll feel better if I stay distracted. TRUTH: Only being with God will satisfy me. Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere.5 I CHOOSE TO BE STILL WITH 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