Get Out of Your Head Quotes

“We can’t curl up on our couches, read the pages of a book, pray, and simply will our minds to change. God is concerned not only with the posture of our hearts but also with the people on each of our arms. In terms of fulfilling our mission in this life, we can’t do anything worthwhile alone.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“when you and I choose to believe a lie about ourselves, it’s one of these three lies we believe: I’m helpless. I’m worthless. I’m unlovable.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“As theologian and emeritus professor D. A. Carson has observed, People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.1”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“So what is the one thought that can successfully interrupt every negative thought pattern? It’s this: I have a choice.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“One God-honoring thought has the potential to change the trajectory of both history and eternity. Just as one uninterrupted lie in my head has the potential to bring about unimaginable destruction in the world around me.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“Evil never wants to be noticed, I should mention here. It sneaks in and hijacks our minds, and we barely notice anything’s amiss.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“God is enough for me. God chooses the least qualified so He gets the glory. I don’t have to measure up.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“You have a God-given, God-empowered, God-redeemed ability to choose what you think about. You have a choice regarding where you focus your energy. You have a choice regarding what you live for.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“what is the one thought that can successfully interrupt every negative thought pattern? It’s this: I have a choice. That’s it. The singular, interrupting thought is this one: I have a choice. If you have trusted in Jesus as your Savior, you have the power of God in you to choose! You are no longer a slave to passions, to lusts, to strongholds, to sin of any kind. You have a God-given, God-empowered, God-redeemed ability to choose what you think about. You have a choice regarding where you focus your energy. You have a choice regarding what you live for.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“LIE: The more self-esteem I have, the better life will go for me. TRUTH: The more I choose God and others over myself, the more joyful I will be. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!5 I CHOOSE TO SERVE GOD AND OTHERS OVER SERVING MYSELF.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“LIE: I’ll feel better if I stay distracted. TRUTH: Only being with God will satisfy me. Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere.5 I CHOOSE TO BE STILL WITH GOD.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“Humility is a grateful and spontaneous awareness that life is a gift, and it is manifested as an ungrudging and unhypocritical acknowledgment of absolute dependence upon God.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“As he thinks in his heart, so is he.”5”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“In the stillness and quiet, not only do we connect with God but we are also able to more clearly identify what is wrong. Recognizing our spirals and naming them is the first step in interrupting them.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“No human is ever meant to be the person who fills our souls or holds in place our worth. Only God can do that. But until I throw off the lie that God’s love isn’t for me, my emotions, decisions, behaviors, and relationships will remain twisted up in the mistaken belief that I’m worthless. When we begin to think about our thoughts, perhaps for the first time, we can stop the downward spiral. We can reset and redirect them. That’s our hope. Not that we would wrestle each and every fear, but that we would allow God to take up so much space in our thinking that our fears will shrink in comparison. I love the quote from A. W. Tozer that says, if God is “exalted…a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“Doubt steals hope. And with no hope, everything that matters doesn’t feel as important anymore.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“We build entire narratives that begin to take on lives of their own, based on assumptions and our overactive imaginations—all because we attend to fears, attend to distractions, attend to worst-case scenarios.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“The Spirit of God lives inside of me, and because of that, I’m never alone. There are people who love me, who want to be with me. I can reach out to them instead of sitting here, stuck.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“The people who stand out to me are the ones who have chosen to trust Jesus more than trusting their ability to make everything work out fine.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“God, I pray that You would set this reader free. God, in Your power would You help us fight the enemy hell-bent on destroying us and help us remember that the power to choose a different way is ours in You? And then help us give that away to a world aching for a new way to think and live. In Jesus’s name, amen.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“. Drawing Battle Lines 8. Holding Space for Silence
I Choose to Be Still with God 9. Lifelines
I Choose to Be Known 10. Unafraid
I Choose to Surrender My Fears to God 11. A Beautiful Interruption
I Choose to Delight in God 12. Less Important
I Choose to Serve God and Others 13. Not Overcome
I Choose to Be Grateful 14. Run Your Race
I Choose to Seek the Good of Others”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“Be the friend you wish others would be for you.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“The average person has more than thirty thousand thoughts per day. Of those, so many are negative that “according to researchers, the vast majority of the illnesses that plague us today are a direct result of a toxic thought life.”7 The”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“A. W. Tozer that says, if God is “exalted…a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“Scientists have found that the brains of people who spend untold hours in prayer and meditation are different.”8 Your imagination will be rewired. “Inappropriate thoughts can be combatted with positive thoughts, such as thinking of a new hobby, playing music, repeating an inspiring quote, or some other positive activity,”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“If you want your child to thrive, then make him or her feel seen and loved.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“What we believe and what we think about matters, and the enemy knows it. And he is determined to get in your head to distract you from doing good and to sink you so deep that you feel helpless, overwhelmed, shut down, and incapable of rising to make a difference for the kingdom of God.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“We have bought the lie that we are victims of our thoughts rather than warriors equipped to fight on the front lines of the greatest battle of our generation: the battle for our minds.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

“When we’re spiraling in noise or distractedness, we have a choice to shift our minds back to God through stillness. When we’re spiraling in isolation, we have a choice to shift our minds back to God through community. When we’re spiraling in anxiety, we have a choice to shift our minds back to God through trust in His good and sovereign purposes. When we’re spiraling in cynicism, we have a choice to shift our minds back to God through worship. When we’re spiraling in self-importance, we have a choice to shift our minds back to God through humility. When we’re spiraling into victimhood, we have a choice to shift our minds back to God through gratitude. When we’re spiraling in complacency, we have a choice to shift our minds back to God through serving Him and others.”
― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts