Quotes from Peter Scazzero

Trust God to run the universe without you.

Our churches are filled with "leaking" Christians who have not treated their emotions as a discipleship issue.

no other person has ever lived your life. You may be wondering what will happen if you engage in this journey of emotionally healthy spirituality, if you take seriously God's purpose for you to increasingly live faithfully out of the life he has given you.

By the very act of refusing to succumb to the enormous pressure of Western culture around us, we, too, serve as a sign of a free people. We have been called out of a world trying to prove its worth and value by what it does or possesses. We are deeply loved by God for who we are, not for what we do.

We make choices to trust God, to wait on God, to obey God, to stick with God, to remain faithful when everything in us wants to quit and run.

Lewis Smedes sums up the dangers of superficial forgiveness: "We will not take healing action against unfair pain until we own the pain we want to heal. It is not enough to feel pain. We need to appropriate the pain we feel: Be conscious of it, take it on, and take it as our own … I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 5:3).

we all depend, in every instant, upon the mercy of God.

Grant me grace to follow you into the unknown, into the next place in my journey with you. In your name, amen.

Most of us never examine the scripts handed to us by our past.

God is just, merciful, good, wise, loving.

We numb our pain through denial, blaming, rationalizations, addictions, and avoidance.