Healing Power of the Christian Mind, The Quotes

“If you must choose between a positive thought and a true thought, always choose what is true.”
― William Backus, The Healing Power of the Christian Mind: How Biblical Truth Can Keep You Healthy

“Replace the notion that you are a helpless victim with the truth that you can direct many things about your health. View your illness as a challenge to change your level of faith, trust, commitment, and participation in your healing.”
― William Backus, The Healing Power of the Christian Mind: How Biblical Truth Can Keep You Healthy

“See, for instance, the imperative in Psalm 42:5, NKJV: “Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance.” God would not tell you to hope in him if you couldn’t choose to do it.”
― William Backus, The Healing Power of the Christian Mind: How Biblical Truth Can Keep You Healthy

“Your beliefs create your thoughts. Your thoughts generate feelings. Your feelings affect your body’s healing systems.”
― William Backus, The Healing Power of the Christian Mind: How Biblical Truth Can Keep You Healthy

“Stress is not something that happens to us, but stress is the way we respond to what happens. When some event occurs and we perceive the situation to be beyond our ability to handle it, that is stress. What we tell ourselves about the event is what makes an event stressful.”
― William Backus, The Healing Power of the Christian Mind: How Biblical Truth Can Keep You Healthy

“Faith can do only what God wants to have done. It is not a method for getting around God’s will so you get your way instead”
― William Backus, The Healing Power of the Christian Mind: How Biblical Truth Can Keep You Healthy

“Your health and your healing can be made better or worse by what you do with your mind!”
― William Backus, The Healing Power of the Christian Mind: How Biblical Truth Can Keep You Healthy

“doctors have long behaved as though spiritual ailments were unimportant—things such as hidden sin, guilt, shame, regret, fear, anger, resentment, bitterness, and cynicism. But they can and do play a causal role in sickness. In the vivid language of the Psalms, poor spiritual health dries up the bones like a summer drought.”
― William Backus, The Healing Power of the Christian Mind: How Biblical Truth Can Keep You Healthy

“belief and hope make a crucial difference.”
― William Backus, The Healing Power of the Christian Mind: How Biblical Truth Can Keep You Healthy

“Philosophers can speculate, but only God can articulate the ultimate truth about what we are—matter and spirit, physical and non-material. Only One can tell us about ultimate answers and realities, and that is God.”
― William Backus, The Healing Power of the Christian Mind: How Biblical Truth Can Keep You Healthy