The God-Shaped Brain Quotes

“Just as the Bible teaches, to give is to live. This is how God designed life to function.”
― Timothy R. Jennings, The God-Shaped Brain: How Changing Your View of God Transforms Your Life

“However, when we worship a god other than one of love—a being who is punitive, authoritarian, critical or distant—fear circuits are activated and, if not calmed, will result in chronic inflammation and damage to both brain and body. As we bow before authoritarian gods, our characters are slowly changed to be less like Jesus. Truly, by beholding we are changed, not only in character, but our neural circuitry as well3 (2 Cor 3:18 KJV).”
― Timothy R. Jennings, The God-Shaped Brain: How Changing Your View of God Transforms Your Life