The Deepest Place Quotes

“When much of our lives has been committed to protecting ourselves from the God we believe has betrayed us, left us, or at the very least simply never shown up, it is not easy to create new brain-cell firing patterns—neural networks—that are durable enough to carry our experiential belief that we are loved.”
― Curt Thompson, MD, The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope

“The more insecurely attached we are to those in our lives with whom we share close emotional connections, the more likely we will attempt to self-regulate in isolation.”
― M.D. Thompson, The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope

“The story of Scripture tells us that Jesus has not just come to make peace—rather, he himself is that very peace.”
― Curt Thompson, MD, The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope