The 40 Day Soul Fast Quotes

“Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self. —Dr. Phil McGraw”
― Cindy Trimm, The 40 Day Soul Fast: Your Journey to Authentic Living

“Being authentic is the ability to make self-honoring choices and stand firmly in who we are in our core. Being true to ourselves gives us the insight and compassion to see others for who they are, not who we expect them to be. It frees us up from the judgment of ourselves and others and it gives others the freedom to be themselves as well. —Victoria J. Reynolds Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting (Psalm 139:23-24 NIV).”
― Cindy Trimm, The 40 Day Soul Fast: Your Journey to Authentic Living

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. —Daniel Defoe”
― Cindy Trimm, The 40 Day Soul Fast: Your Journey to Authentic Living

“Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.”
― Cindy Trimm, The 40 Day Soul Fast: Your Journey to Authentic Living

“Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life (Philippians 4:6).”
― Cindy Trimm, The 40 Day Soul Fast: Your Journey to Authentic Living

“This core holy people will not do wrong. They won’t lie, won’t use words to flatter or seduce. Content with who they are and where they are, unanxious, they’ll live at peace (Zephaniah 3:12-13).”
― Cindy Trimm, The 40 Day Soul Fast: Your Journey to Authentic Living

“seven things we must add to our faith in order to “abound and be fruitful” or “more productive and useful” (2 Pet. 1:8 NLT). Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone (2 Peter 1:5-7 NLT). It is godliness that provides the bridge between “patience” and “kindness”—it is what causes our virtue and knowledge and temperance to translate into the most God-like characteristic of all: love—for “God is love” (1 John 4:8).”
― Cindy Trimm, The 40 Day Soul Fast: Your Journey to Authentic Living

“Where you are now is a direct result of every decision you have made in the past. In other words, the life you are living today—the state of your relationships, the joy and peace you are experiencing, or the sorrow and pain—finds its root in decisions you have made up until this present moment. Your life is simply a representation of the sum total of your choices—choices that either enslave or save your soul. Think about that for a moment. Ultimately, you are only one decision away from changing everything. One decision can change the trajectory of your life.”
― Cindy Trimm, The 40 Day Soul Fast: Your Journey to Authentic Living

“The word glory connotes “the full expression of the potential of an object or person.” The glory of the sun is its heat and light. The glory of a flower is its fragrance and beauty. The glory of a human being is fully expressing our God-like nature, for, according to Saint Irenaeus, an early church father, “the glory of God is man fully alive”—which is exactly how you are being transformed, one step at a time, into the real, God-glorifying, you.”
― Cindy Trimm, The 40 Day Soul Fast: Your Journey to Authentic Living

“It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. —Jim Rohn”
― Cindy Trimm, The 40 Day Soul Fast: Your Journey to Authentic Living

“Fasting allows the Holy Spirit to reshape you into your true self by dealing with your wounds from the past that have distorted, stagnated, and stunted your essence. Negative actions and reactions are often the outcry of a hurting soul. You become the hurting that hurts and the disappointed that disappoints. Your soul becomes incarcerated in prisons of offense, resentment, and unforgiveness.”
― Cindy Trimm, The 40 Day Soul Fast: Your Journey to Authentic Living

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― Cindy Trimm, The 40 Day Soul Fast: Your Journey to Authentic Living

“I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent. —Martin Luther King, Jr.”
― Cindy Trimm, The 40 Day Soul Fast: Your Journey to Authentic Living

“becoming the person you were created to be—and fulfilling God’s dream of you is the only way to true wholeness and happiness. —Carol Luebering”
― Cindy Trimm, The 40 Day Soul Fast: Your Journey to Authentic Living

“Never be tempted to become an imitator of another. No one is better than you at being you. We all have something unique to give. Do not compare yourself with anyone else. Dare to maintain your uniqueness and divine originality. Set the standard, be an example, raise the bar—when you do, you give others permission to do the same.”
― Cindy Trimm, The 40 Day Soul Fast: Your Journey to Authentic Living

“This week practice peace: “Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace” (Col. 3:15 NIV). How do you practice peace? How do you let the peace of Christ rule in your heart? I leave you with these instructions given by the apostle Peter: Summing up: Be agreeable, be sympathetic, be loving, be compassionate, be humble. That goes for all of you, no exceptions. No retaliation. No sharp-tongued sarcasm. Instead, bless—that’s your job, to bless. You’ll be a blessing and also get a blessing. Whoever wants to embrace life and see the day fill up with good, here’s what you do: Say nothing evil or hurtful; snub evil and cultivate good; run after peace for all you’re worth. God looks on all this with approval…but He turns His back on those who do evil things (1 Peter 3:8-12). If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world. —Chinese Proverb”
― Cindy Trimm, The 40 Day Soul Fast: Your Journey to Authentic Living

“Examine your motives, test your heart!” (1 Cor. 11:27).”
― Cindy Trimm, The 40 Day Soul Fast: Your Journey to Authentic Living

“We’re being shown how to turn our backs on a godless, indulgent life, and how to take on a God-filled, God-honoring life. This new life is starting right now, and is whetting our appetites for the glorious day when our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, appears. He offered Himself as a sacrifice to free us from a dark, rebellious life into this good, pure life, making us a people He can be proud of, energetic in goodness (Titus 2:12-14).”
― Cindy Trimm, The 40 Day Soul Fast: Your Journey to Authentic Living

“This is ultimately the purpose of The 40 Day Soul Fast! To run a diagnostic on the life of your soul and purge whatever is keeping you from being more productive and useful.”
― Cindy Trimm, The 40 Day Soul Fast: Your Journey to Authentic Living

“Embrace this kingdom life and don’t doubt God, you’ll not only do minor feats like I did…but also triumph over huge obstacles (Matthew 21:21).”
― Cindy Trimm, The 40 Day Soul Fast: Your Journey to Authentic Living