Untangle Your Emotions Quotes

“We think God is waiting for us to pull ourselves together, but actually He is waiting for us to come to Him and fall apart.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“When we deny our pain, losses, and feelings year after year, we become less and less human. We transform slowly into empty shells with smiley faces painted on them.”[3]”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“Feelings aren’t meant to be fixed. Feelings are meant to be felt.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“Emotions are not the sin; it’s what we do with them that is the sin.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“Because of this, emotions are simply another facet of what it means to be made in the image of God.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“I’ve learned that I want to be in for the walks together, whatever they hold. On the very best nights and the very worst. We can be in that fully, wholeheartedly together.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“Jesus is talking about the hope of Himself—salvation, forgiveness. Knock and it is yours. And then we work out the rest with fear and trembling as we make our way eternally home.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“Today we would call him an emotional train wreck, but God called him “a man after his own heart.”[13] He lamented a lot. He felt safe to do it because of what he wrote in Psalm 103:13–14: “As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him. For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.” It’s a picture of a father with his kid, gracious that they’re a mess, compassionate that they’re very upset about it, and glad they came to him with it all.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“He also calls us to not sin in our anger,[10] and that is the dang hard part. We live in an outraged society where everybody is offended all the time. But that doesn’t make anger evil. It’s what we do with our anger that determines if something good turns into something bad.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“When was the last time you felt ecstatic, giddy, really happy? Here is the thing about joy: You’ll never notice or appreciate it unless you learn to feel sadness and fear and anger too.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“Because the more we let ourselves feel all the feelings we’re truly feeling, the more we are freed to love and create with all that energy we tend to burn trying to keep those feelings at bay.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“But imagine if our relational God, who created us in love to be relational beings, had not given us all these emotions. We’d never feel grateful. So we’d never worship God.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“To remind us that we’re alive and to help us make sense of the world around us.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“And so began our lifelong practice of denying ourselves permission to feel what we felt. Denying ourselves the truth of our humanity as beings created in the image of God—the God who feels all these feelings and created us to feel them as well.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“we are all feelers.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“It turns out you can’t feel feelings while you’re preoccupied with fixing them.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“After all, where did those of us who know Jesus get the idea that we were going to have a straight and easy path all the way to heaven? It’s a wild ride all the way home.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“Our willingness to feel what we feel connects us to ourselves, to others, to God.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“Let me be clear, you will never be emotionally healthy outside the will of God.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“God is a God of order, and I am someone who appreciates order.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“They point to a deep-seated something that has gone unaddressed in our heart.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It