_{^{Anxiety is love’s greatest killer.
~ Anais Nin}}

Reflect, Resonate, Reevaluate, Respond

Jesus is referring, not to official lawcourts, but to the judgments and condemnations that occur within ordinary lives, as people set themselves up as moral guardians and critics of one another.
~ N.T. Wright, 1948- , former bishop of Durham

The current popular notion that judging others is in itself a sin leads to such inappropriate maxims as ‘I’m okay and you’re okay.’ It encourages a conspiracy of moral indifference which says, “If you never tell me that anything I’m doing is wrong, I’ll never tell you that anything you’re doing is wrong.
~ Elisabeth Elliot, 1926-2015, from Leadership Vol. 3, no. 1

~~~~~~~~~ Matthew 7:1-12 ~~~~~~~~~

Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of anyone. For no one can judge a criminal until he recognizes that he is just such a criminal as the man standing before him, and that he perhaps is more than all men to blame for that crime. When he understands that, he will be able to be a judge. Though that sounds absurd, it is true.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, The Brothers Karamazov

To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.
~ Gerald G. May, 1940-2005, American psychologist and theologian

We cannot prioritize our doing before being, our assignment before healing, our service before freedom.
~ Rebekah Lyons, author of You Are Free

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one.
~ Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887, clergyman, social reformer

It is a simple, straightforward, and often neglected fact: The opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is fear. It is just that basic. For fear is the breeding ground—the simmering cauldron so to speak—of all the resentments, bitterness, anger, and destructive behaviors that constitute and give rise to hate. It doesn’t matter whether our hatred targets others or is turned inward in a form of self-loathing. The opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is fear.
~ Bishop Robert O’Neill, Episcopal priest

^{Anxiety is love’s greatest killer.
~ Anais Nin}

Reflect, Resonate, Reevaluate, Respond

What does your anxiety do? It does not empty tomorrow, brother, of its sorrows; but, ah! it empties today of its strength.
~ Alexander MacLaren, 1826-1910, from Sermons Preached in Union Chapel

We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.
~ Harry Ironside, 1876-1951, preacher, teacher author

~~~~~~~~ Matthew 6:25-34 ~~~~~~~~

When I was sick, I only looked inward. Through healing, I started seeing everyone else.
~ Rebekah Lyons, contemporary speaker & author

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
~ William Wilberforce, 1759-1833, politician, abolitionist

All artists must learn the art of surviving loss: loss of hope, loss of face, loss of money, loss of self-belief[…] Artistic losses can be turned into artistic gains and strengths—but not in isolation of the beleaguered artist’s brain[…] We must acknowledge it and share it.
~ Julia Cameron, 1948- , author, artist, playwright

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.
~ John Green, 1977- , author

We are living in an age when anxiety is sweeping us further into a polarized, rage-filled world to escape the fears we refuse to name.
~ Dan B. Allender, PhD, professor of counseling psychology

Anxiety is the invitation to go thru the path of pain. [I]n fact, redemption in essence, is going through the path of suffering and out of it, becoming something better than what we started with. That’s the beauty of the Gospel. Becoming something more than before.
~ Curtis Chang, 1968- , theologian, consulting faculty

How shall my heart be reconciled to its feast of losses?
~ Stanley Kunitz, 1905-2006, American poet, Poet Laureate 1974-76 & 2000