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Restoring the Christian Soul: Overcoming Barriers to Completion in Christ Through Healing Prayer QUOTES

Restoring the Christian Soul: Overcoming Barriers to Completion in Christ Through Healing Prayer QUOTES

1 " Fr. Michael Scanlon, in his book Inner Healing, states that, “We have an attitudinal life which operates from the very core of our being. . . . This life determines broad general patterns of relating to others and to God.” He then speaks of five different problem patterns that alert him to a need to pray for what he calls a “heart healing.” These are: 1) A judgmental spirit that is harsh and demanding on self and others. 2) A strong perfectionist attitude demanding the impossible from self and others. 3) A strong pattern of fearing future events. 4) A sense of aloneness and abandonment in times of decision. 5) A preoccupation with one’s own guilt and a compulsion to compete for position and success.[4] "

― Leanne Payne , Restoring the Christian Soul: Overcoming Barriers to Completion in Christ Through Healing Prayer

2 " we necessarily have negative, distorted thinking about ourselves and others. We do not ignore or deny it, but we write it out as specifically as we can, just as we do with our sins, and say to God, “Look at this. I don’t want this. You take it!” We name it as the distorted thinking that it is. Then we replace it with right thinking—those light-filled thoughts and attitudes in line with truth and the way things really are. "

― Leanne Payne , Restoring the Christian Soul: Overcoming Barriers to Completion in Christ Through Healing Prayer

3 " When one lives in the midst of a lie long enough, it becomes a part of you whether you want to rationally accept it or not. "

― Leanne Payne , Restoring the Christian Soul: Overcoming Barriers to Completion in Christ Through Healing Prayer