Sermon
Quotes on avoidance
Bring the gospel to life with our extensive collection of sermon quotes. Search by topic (keyword), scripture passage, and more. Looking for a specific author? Learn from the best communicators past and present. Looking for a specific Bible passage? You can search by book and chapter.
Search by topic, scripture, category etc..
24 Results in 43ms
Display
Sorted By
-
Quote
A typical response to threat and burden is to want to flee it. It’s evacuation as the cure for trouble. If only I could get away is our mantra. Then I would be safe. Then I could enjoy my life. But wh... -
Quote
When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding. -
Quote
People who blame things rarely change things. Blame is an unassailable change-avoidance strategy. -
Quote
“It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept. -
Quote
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.” -
Quote
Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance. -
Quote
“My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.” -
Quote
Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfort... -
Quote
Even with the desire for a better life, we can be reluctant to do the work of boundaries because it will be a war. The battle falls into two categories: outside resistance we get from others and the r... -
Quote
I imagine that one of the reasons that people cling to their hate and prejudice so stubbornly, is that they sense that once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain. -
Quote
One’s own heart can be foreign territory, a terra incognita, and this lack of at-home-ness with oneself generates our propensity to run. We still can’t find what we’re looking for because we don’t kno... -
Quote
Pushing aside emotions only makes them stronger. -
Quote
While the truth that we cannot escape God’s all-seeing eye may weigh us down at times, it is finally the only remedy for our uneasiness. If we wish to hide from the penetrating gaze of holy love, it i... -
Quote
The avoidance of pain is the beginning of all unhealthy behavior. -
Quote
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” -
Quote
Running away from a problem only increases the distance from the solution. The easiest way to escape from the problem is to solve it. -
Quote
“Laws of silence don't work.... When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire... -
Quote
Avoidance doesn’t solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve. -
Quote
Death is not ok. By avoiding the subject of death, we act like that’s not true. And we shrink down the scale of Jesus’s victory to fit the world we live in now. -
Quote
Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbin... -
Quote
Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will. -
Quote
“There’s nothing simpler than avoiding people you don’t like. Avoiding one’s friends, that’s the real test.” -
Quote
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. -
Quote
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.
Search by Topic
S
Search by Reference