Enough Quotes

“The way you think about yourself will become the way you see yourself, whether it’s true or false. Eventually, you’ll believe what you tell yourself. If you tell yourself negative, distorted statements about yourself, you will act in negative, destructive ways. If you replace the lies with the truth about who you really are, then you will begin to walk, talk, and live like the child of God you already are.”
― Sharon Jaynes, Enough: Silencing the Lies That Steal Your Confidence

“Shannon Woodward said this about healing: “Healing, I’ve learned, is hidden work. It’s the touch of God on the tender, raw places of your soul. It’s something you don’t feel all at once, something you can’t see. You don’t mark that day on a calendar. You just look back over the weeks and months and realize you don’t hurt the way you used to.”
― Sharon Jaynes, Enough: Silencing the Lies That Steal Your Confidence

“Once we discover the true joy and contentment that can be found only in Jesus, we become happier people. As a result, we are more pleasant to be around, and other areas of our lives seem to improve. But as long as we’re trying to siphon our happiness out of our relationships, relationships will be arduous and illusive. We are placing a burden on other people they were not created to bear. Here”
― Sharon Jaynes, Enough: Silencing the Lies That Steal Your Confidence

“Psychiatrist Paul Meier conducted a study on the effect of meditation among seminary students. He concluded, “Daily meditation on Scripture, with personal application, is the most effective means of obtaining personal joy, peace, and emotional maturity… On average, it takes about three years of daily Scripture meditation to bring about enough change in a person’s thought patterns and behavior to produce statistically superior mental health and happiness.”
― Sharon Jaynes, Enough: Silencing the Lies That Steal Your Confidence

“Your problem is that you don’t know what the problem is. You think your problem is your problem, but that’s not the problem at all. Your problem is not your problem and that’s your main problem.”
― Sharon Jaynes, Enough: Silencing the Lies That Steal Your Confidence

“When we talk about strongholds, we’re not talking about random thoughts or occasional sins. A stronghold is a thought pattern or habitual sin. It’s a fortress built with the bricks of thoughts and held together by the mortar of emotions. Strongholds become our perception of reality.”
― Sharon Jaynes, Enough: Silencing the Lies That Steal Your Confidence

“Many strongholds are built for protection, but inevitably become prisons.”
― Sharon Jaynes, Enough: Silencing the Lies That Steal Your Confidence

“When we measure our worth by the approval of others, we are only as valuable as our last compliment or accomplishment.”
― Sharon Jaynes, Enough: Silencing the Lies That Steal Your Confidence

“My body is the temple of God, and I need to take better care of it. I can do all things through Christ, who gives me strength.”
― Sharon Jaynes, Enough: Silencing the Lies That Steal Your Confidence

“No person, possession, place, or position will ultimately make you happy. Those things may give you moments or even periods of happiness, but ultimate, lasting joy can be found only in knowing Jesus. Why? Because God planned it that way. Solomon wrote, “He has also set eternity in the human heart” (Ecclesiastes 3:11). Another translation says it this way: “He also has planted eternity in men’s hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy]” (AMPC).”
― Sharon Jaynes, Enough: Silencing the Lies That Steal Your Confidence

“Doris Mortman said, “Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.”9 Until you understand that you are God’s masterpiece, made in His image, you’ll never be content with the features He’s given you. Do you believe you are a happenstance mixture of your parents’ genes, or do you believe you were intentionally woven and knitted together by God with a specific design in mind? What we believe about our origin greatly affects what we believe about our destiny. You want to know the best beauty secret ever? You won’t find it in a spa, at the cosmetic counter at the mall, or in a makeover article in a magazine. You will find it in the Word of God. We become more and more beautiful every time we sit at Jesus’s feet. “We, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit” (2 Corinthians 3:18).”
― Sharon Jaynes, Enough: Silencing the Lies That Steal Your Confidence

“My niece, Anna, told about a poignant moment with her eight-year-old daughter. I love myself but I hate my thighs. I do. I also hate my post-baby, three-times-C-sectioned tummy. No matter how many planks, sit-ups, or miles I run, it will never be like it was when I was in college. And that makes me sad, frustrated, and sometimes angry. When my sweet husband tells me I look beautiful, instead of just thanking him, I answer back with a caveat: “Thanks, but I look fat.” I do this in front of my kids sometimes without realizing it. My boys always come back with, “No way, Mom. You look awesome” or “We think you’re beautiful!” But my daughter is just quiet. Watching. Listening. Later she’ll come up to me, hug me, and whisper, “I love you so much, Mommy.” A couple of months ago, when she was all dressed up, I saw her looking at herself in the mirror. I stopped and said, “Lillian, you look absolutely stunning!” She turned around and said to me very matter of fact, “No I don’t. I look fat.” I gasped! Doesn’t she know how precious she is? Doesn’t she know how beautiful she is? What a blessing she is? Doesn’t she know what a miracle her very existence is? And then I remembered all the times I answered her dad with the very same words. I was sad, ashamed, and most of all heartbroken. Lillian was eight years old. She understood that “fat” was how I felt about myself, so she decided she should feel that way too. Lillian and I had a long talk that day. I told her what a blessing her life is, and how God made her special, unique, and beautiful. I also apologized to her, my two sons, and my husband for not loving myself like I should. Lately, I’ve been saying “thank you” when I get compliments—something new to me—and it’s made all the difference. Now when I tell Lillian how gorgeous she is (which is all the time), she looks at me with her bright hazel eyes and says, “Thanks, Mommy! I think you’re really beautiful too!”
― Sharon Jaynes, Enough: Silencing the Lies That Steal Your Confidence

“Like an artist who sees the finished work in his mind’s eye, God saw your unformed substance and then began to fashion you from head to toe. He made no mistakes but planned each detail of your being. He is the masterful Potter who formed you and shaped your unique features. You are one of a kind.”
― Sharon Jaynes, Enough: Silencing the Lies That Steal Your Confidence

“Henry Blackaby challenges us, “When God invites you to join Him in His work, He has assigned a God-sized assignment for you. You will realize that you cannot do it on your own. If God doesn’t help you, you will fail. This is the crisis point where many decide not to follow what they sense God is leading them to do. Then they wonder why they do not experience God’s presence and activity the way other Christians do.”1”
― Sharon Jaynes, Enough: Silencing the Lies That Steal Your Confidence