Quotes from “Trees of Righteousness” 

“When human beings have new life and new purpose, our pain, no matter how profound and debilitating, can easily be forgotten in the cleansing wash of healing and new purpose.” (Trees of Righteousness, Page 9)

“When trauma occurs, it is a tremendously disruptive force. Our normal ways of doing things, of coping, are no longer enough.” (Trees of Righteousness, Page 13)

“We can do a few things that can help set our minds in the right place for the acceptance stage to happen earlier – to set our cognitive and emotional sails in such a way as to catch and ride the breezes of recovery as they come.”

(Trees of Righteousness, Page 18)

“How many millions of Samsons are there today – men or women that have sold out to their own sexual appetites and squandered their God-given energy and talent in the pursuit of the next sexual ‘score’ instead of following the path of self-control and careful living?” (Trees of Righteousness, Page 38)

“Jesus, as our perfect example, had to constantly surrender His feelings to His Father, knowing that in times of extreme stress, emotions can turn unreliable and that acting on them can lead to bad decisions, with massive and sometimes irrevocable consequences.” (Trees of Righteousness, Page 48)

“That day on the edge of a pool near the sheep gate, the Creator re-created, giving a man back his life. He called into being that which did not exist!” (Trees of Righteousness, Page 63)

Jesus Himself had to figure out how to deal with His own trauma, grief, and pain while He was here on this earth as a man. Because He became one of us, He was subjected to all the dysfunctions and negative issues that we are. He had to deal with huge, titanic negative emotions on a regular basis.” (Trees of Righteousness, Page 63)

“The Christian life is the only battle that you win by surrendering.” (Trees of Righteousness, Page 86)

“When we surrender our right of self-identification, we do not cease to be ourselves. On the contrary, it is when we are totally surrendered that we truly learn to be ourselves for the first time.” (Trees of Righteousness, Page 102)

“Jesus put aside all things, even good things, to make room for the best things.” (Trees of Righteousness, Page 124)

“At Gethsemane, Jesus knew that the pain had dimmed His vision, so He didn’t try to see, He just trusted.” (Trees of Righteousness, Page 133)

“For all who love as He loved, I see the grave as a place of refuge, a place of eternal safety, a place of rest, where we can place all our hope in the future that God has promised to us who love Him.” (Trees of Righteousness, Page 171)