The Beautiful Fight Quotes

“The grand point is not to wear the garb, nor use the brogue of religion, but to possess the life of God within, and feel and think as Jesus would have done because of that inner life. Small is the value of external religion unless it is the outcome of a life within. Charles Spurgeon”
― Gary L. Thomas, Holy Available: What If Holiness Is about More Than What We Don't Do?

“When you sexually reconnect, you feel the effects of this neurochemical cement. Learning to disregard this cement (which you must eventually do to break things off) will undercut the positive effects it has in marriage. You must train yourself to ignore what God created you to pay attention to.”
― Gary L. Thomas, The Beautiful Fight: Surrendering to the Transforming Presence of God Every Day of Your Life

“Honesty demands directness: God has to discipline us to transform us.”
― Gary L. Thomas, The Beautiful Fight: Surrendering to the Transforming Presence of God Every Day of Your Life

“Neurologists tell us a startling truth that has major implications for spiritual formation: Our choices and experience shape our brain, both literally and physiologically. What we choose cognitively helps make us into who we are.”
― Gary L. Thomas, The Beautiful Fight: Surrendering to the Transforming Presence of God Every Day of Your Life

“Regaining God’s perspective — refocusing our spiritual eyesight — is one of the greatest blessings of the believer. It changes everything. If we don’t consciously take a step back and adjust our vision, we’ll live under a perpetual cloud of illusion. This is a conscious, meditative turning, a determined effort to set our sights on what really matters. Will you pause for just a moment and consider where your eyesight may be growing dim? Are you blinded to God’s daily blessings because you’re too focused on financial concerns, health issues, or frustrated relationships? Have you stopped seeing people as important and instead stare persistently at possessions, power, and pleasure? Are your eyes so preoccupied by your comfort that they have grown too tired to look at your life and your circumstances from God’s perspective?”
― Gary L. Thomas, The Beautiful Fight: Surrendering to the Transforming Presence of God Every Day of Your Life

“Incarnational spirituality — the living, reigning, and ascended Jesus living through us and transforming us into different people — does not exist to uphold a few rules but rather speaks of a process that creates an entirely new person who sees with new eyes, feels with a new heart, hears with renewed ears, and lives with a new passion. It is, I believe, the only life worth living.”
― Gary L. Thomas, The Beautiful Fight: Surrendering to the Transforming Presence of God Every Day of Your Life