Adam S. McHugh Quotes

#1. Introverted wounds bleed in our minds and hearts, and bleed out in our behaviors, actions and relationships.

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#2. We cannot find freedom in our introversion until we embrace our primary identities as sons and daughters of God.

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#3. Let God make you fully you. Rejoice in your God-given temperament and use it for God's purposes. This point cannot be emphasized enough. We must be authentic. If we try to be someone we are not, people will see it instantly.

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#4. We seek healing both from the internal wounds of distorted self-understandings and feelings of inadequacy, and from the outward wounds of alienation from others and exclusion from our communities. We desire the freedom to be ourselves and to love others as ourselves.

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#5. Introverts' wounds usually begin in childhood. Our families of origin convey to us messages about introversion, which set us on a path of either self-acceptance or self-criticism.

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#6. When introverts are in conflict with each other ... it may require a map in order to follow all the silences, nonverbal cues and passive-aggressive behaviors!

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#7. Introverts have layered personalities, and they prefer to slowly unpeel the layers as they bond with people over time.

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#8. Even the healthiest of people struggle to measure the world and themselves with an accurate yardstick, as the power of sin infects everyone's mind as well as his or her actions.

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#9. Though introverts look calm on the surface, our brains are bubbling with activity, and thus we require less external stimulation than extroverts.

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#10. We define ourselves in relationship to Christ: who we are is how we relate to him. The Son, sent by the Father, lives in us through the Holy Spirit, and we can't truly meet ourselves until we meet him.

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#11. Because introverts are typically good listeners and, at least, have the appearance of calmness, we are attractive to emotionally needy people. Introverts, gratified that other people are initiating with them, can easily get caught in these exhausting and unsatisfying relationships.

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#12. I am convinced that true healing ultimately comes from the outside; it comes as an act of hospitality, as we respond to and welcome the indwelling presence of the Creator God who "formed my inward parts" (Ps 139:13).

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#13. Introversion and shyness are not synonymous. Introversion is a natural personality trait where we go inside ourselves to process our experiences. Shyness, on the other hand, is a condition marked by fear or extreme anxiety in social situations.

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#14. I believe that the truly healthy church is a combination of introverted and extroverted qualities that fluidly move together. Only in that partnership can we capture both the depth and breadth of God's mission.

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#15. Others are able to mediate the gentleness of Christ to us when we are not able to be gentle with ourselves.

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#16. He is not a man that is easy to draw out, though he can be communicative enough when the fancy seizes him." STAMFORD, DESCRIBING SHERLOCK HOLMES TO DR. WATSON, IN SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, A STUDY IN SCARLET

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#17. In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images.

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#18. While extroverts commonly feel loneliness when others are absent, introverts can feel most lonely when others are present, because ours is the aching loneliness of not being known or understood.

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#19. Introverts often prefer writing to speaking, because writing uses a different neurological pathway in the brain than speaking does.

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#20. Introverts treasure the close relationships they have stretched so much to make.

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#21. A church that is self-focused and insular is a social club, not a church.

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