The Body Teaches the Soul Quotes

“Human beings are created with limits”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life

“The gospel is always good news”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life

“I had no idea that ordinary little habits would bring the most extraordinary change in my life. I had no idea how much the spiritual disciplines would invite me to physical transformation.”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life

“If I could be accused of being anything”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life

“Second”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life

“the most important thing is that”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life

“Stained glass,” he said”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life

“Christ has no body now on earth but yours; no hands but yours; no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ’s compassion is to look out to the earth. Yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good. —Teresa of Ávila”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life

“Try a daily rhythm of waking up before your phone does and putting it to bed before you go to bed.”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life

“It is essential that Christians understand this and focus on external nudges as a way to fight for a world of community. We can do this by becoming experts in using our phone’s “do not disturb” settings and ruthlessly eliminating notifications. Our notification settings convince us to constantly clutch our phones as if they’re precious treasure”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life

“We have a mandate to do what God did: Get our hands dirty in the soil of culture shaping.”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life

“People often ask me how to get rid of vanity before they engage in exercise”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life

“If the body teaches the soul”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life

“I walked back to the kitchen with a profound feeling that I still carry: Grace means that at the end of my patience”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life

“The saints of the past rightly understood that we follow the rabbi who was the “Great Physician,”9 the God-man who came not for the healthy but for the sick”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life

“Small or large”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life

“Nothing reveals that we were made for wholeness so much as our brokenness.”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life

“Received as a gift”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life

“But body as image of God can lead us outward to the much more important question: How is what we eat shaping our ability to love God and love others?”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life

“now see that how I treat my body is integral to my call to be a husband”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life

“How is it that I can preach a gospel of peace in my head and yet find my body a wreck of anxiety?”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life

“You cannot think your way out of a problem you didn’t think your way into. You practiced your way here; you need to practice your way out.”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life