Peter Scazzero Quotes

#1. emotional health and spiritual maturity are inseparable. It is not possible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature.

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#2. Life can be difficult, so have fun whenever you can to the glory of God.

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#3. God never loses any part of our past for his future when we surrender ourselves to him. Every mistake, sin, and detour we take in the journey of life is taken by God and becomes his gift for a future of blessing.

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#4. The critical issue on the journey with God is not "Am I happy?" but "Am I free?

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#5. True spirituality frees us to live joyfully in the present.

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#6. Can we really love our neighbors well without loving ourselves?

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#7. God intends that we mature in learning to recognize how he speaks and guides us through our feelings.

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#8. When genuine love is released in a relationship, God's presence is manifest.

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#9. Ignoring our emotions is turning our back on reality. Listening to our emotions ushers us into reality. And reality is where we meet God. . . . Emotions are the language of the soul. They are the cry that gives the heart a voice. . .

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#10. Loving well is the goal of the Christian life.

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#11. taking care of the tasks of life. We know we have found our balance when we are so deeply rooted in God that our activity is marked by the peaceful, joyful, rich quality of our contemplation.

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#12. Our relationship with God and relationship with others are two sides of the same coin.

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#13. Few of us know the experience of being loved for being just who we are.

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#14. Be willing to tolerate the discomfort necessary for growth.

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#15. By failing to let others be themselves before God and move at their own pace, we inevitably project onto them our own discomfort with their choice to live life differently than we do.

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#16. Changing the way we have lived for twenty or forty or sixty years is nothing short of a revolution. 4.

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#17. there is nothing we can do or not do that would cause God to love us any more than he does right now.

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#18. Respect is not a feeling. It is how we treat another person.

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