Quotes by Caroline Leaf
Caroline Leaf — Autorin und Kommunikationspathologin · evangelikal · Südafrika / USA
Caroline Leaf (geboren 1963) ist eine südafrikanisch-US-amerikanische Kommunikationspathologin, Buchautorin und Vortragsrednerin im freikirchlich-charismatischen Umfeld. Sie wurde durch Bestseller wie „Switch On Your Brain“ bekannt, in denen sie biblische Aussagen zur Sinneserneuerung mit Konzepten der Neuroplastizität und mentalen Entgiftung verknüpft. Bibellesern bietet sie alltagsnahe Impulse zum Umgang mit belastenden Denkmustern, steht jedoch wegen methodisch fragwürdiger neurowissenschaftlicher Behauptungen und einer pauschalen Reduktion von Krankheitsursachen auf falsches Denken in der Kritik.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Wisdom & Understanding, Courage & Strength, Freedom & Truth, Meaning & Identity, Growth & Character, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Peace & Rest, Fear & Anxiety
Quotes by Caroline Leaf
Our brains are made for love. Not fear. Not performance. Not aggression. But LOVE.
Caroline Leaf
The sins of parents create a predisposition, not a destiny.
Caroline Leaf
Feeling guilty because you “failed to think positively enough,” “didn’t have enough faith,” or didn’t reach some “ideal” is damaging to your psyche and your physical body.
Caroline Leaf
Your brain cannot change until you accept the anxiety or depression as a signal giving you information on its cause, or origin, and in this way you make the anxiety or depression work for you and not against you.
Caroline Leaf
Satan, the father of lies (John 8:44), will come at you with a thousand negative probabilities, but you always need to remember that a probability has no power.
Caroline Leaf
You are not a victim. You can control your reactions. You do have a choice.
Caroline Leaf
Remember, even if a thought or emotion feels urgent and is demanding a response from you, you are the boss. You don’t need to respond to every emotion, word, or action.
Caroline Leaf
Accept the toxic emotions you feel. Sometimes the only way out, is through.
Caroline Leaf
Thoughts are real, physical things that occupy mental real estate. Moment by moment, every day, you are changing the structure of your brain through your thinking. When we hope, it is an activity of the mind that changes the structure of our brain in a positive and normal direction.
Caroline Leaf
We are not victims of our biology. We are co-creators of our destiny alongside God. God leads, but we have to choose to let God lead. We have been designed to create thoughts, and from these we live out our lives (Prov. 23:7).
Caroline Leaf
God designed humans to observe our own thoughts, catch those that are bad, and get rid of them.
Caroline Leaf
The seeds you plant in your head will determine what kind of decisions you make and what you harvest in your life, regardless of your circumstances.
Caroline Leaf
Everything we do begins with a thought. If we want to change anything in our lives, we first have to change our thinking, our mind.
Caroline Leaf
Multitasking is a persistent myth. Paying deep, focused attention to one task at a time is the correct way.
Caroline Leaf
How we think not only affects our own spirit, soul, and body but also people around us.
Caroline Leaf
When you see choosing to change your mind and to learn as a heavy burden, you miss out on the opportunities in front of you. When you see choosing to change your mind and to learn as a wonderful privilege, suddenly you see the opportunities.
Caroline Leaf
I believe God is taking us through the material world into the spiritual world to get to know him more deeply. Why, after all, did he put our soul and spirit in a physical body and place us in a physical world?
Caroline Leaf
I want to shape my world around God’s truth because I know as a scientist and a believer, paying attention to my thoughts and purposefully focusing my mind leads to great transformations.
Caroline Leaf
If the brain can get worse by constantly focusing on the problem, then the brain can get better by understanding how to eliminate and replace the problem.
Caroline Leaf
Our thoughts can either limit us to what we believe we can do or free us to develop abilities well beyond our expectations or the expectations of others.
Caroline Leaf
When we gather information like puzzle pieces without putting the puzzle together, intellectual growth is stifled.
Caroline Leaf
We are not victims of our biology or circumstances. How we react to the events and circumstances of life can have an enormous impact on our mental and even physical health.
Caroline Leaf
We’ve forgotten the art of deep and focused mind-management. We want things fast, quick, now. We often don’t want to put in the hard work that leads to true change, or we’ve never been taught what this kind of work looks like.
Caroline Leaf
The process of thinking and choosing is the most powerful thing in the universe after God, and it is a phenomenal gift from God to be treasured and used properly.
Caroline Leaf
You are made from God’s perfectness, but it is up to you to create your expertise in life. God gives us the blueprint, but we need to choose to make it happen.
Caroline Leaf
We are directly responsible for what we choose to think about and dwell on, and we make these decisions in the privacy of our own thinking.
Caroline Leaf
There is something you can do that no one else can do, and the world needs you to do it!
Caroline Leaf
Who we are is where happiness lies, but this is so often blocked by who we have become.
Caroline Leaf
If you put your mind to it, you can achieve what God says you can achieve.
Caroline Leaf
Things are uncertain, but I can handle it. I’ve never experienced this before, but I can handle it. These are uncertain times, but I can handle it. I have no idea what’s going to happen, but I can handle it.
Caroline Leaf
Reaction is the key word here. You cannot control the events or circumstances of your life, but you can control your reactions.
Caroline Leaf
Daytime thinking is a building process, whereas nighttime thinking is a sorting process.
Caroline Leaf
We are not driven by forces beyond our conscious control. We are accountable for every thought and decision we make. We are highly intelligent beings with free will, and we are responsible for our choices.
Caroline Leaf
The bottom line is this: we cannot improve our lifestyle until we learn how to manage our thinking.
Caroline Leaf
You cannot sit back and wait to be happy and healthy and have a great thought life; you have to make the choice to make this happen. You have to choose to get rid of the toxic and get back in alignment with God. You can be overwhelmed by every small setback in life, or you can be energized by the possibilities they bring.
Caroline Leaf
The events and circumstances of life aren’t going anywhere; people make a lot of decisions every day that affect us all, and suffering of some sort for you and your loved ones is inevitable. That said, I wholeheartedly believe that although events and circumstances can’t be controlled, we can control our reactions to these events and circumstances. This is mind-management in action.
Caroline Leaf
We may have a fixed set of genes in our chromosomes, but which of those genes are active and how they are active has a great deal to do with how we think and process our experiences. Our thoughts produce words and behaviors, which in turn stimulate more thinking and choices that build more thoughts in an endless cycle.
Caroline Leaf
We need to stop glorifying the person who “works all weekend” and rather praise the person who succeeds in finding a balance between work, family and rest. Our culture of celebrating the workaholic is one of the main reasons we are seeing an increase in mental, emotional and physical burnout.
Caroline Leaf
We can retrain the brain to focus on the good things in life. We step into our “normal” when we do this, because we are wired for love. Having an “attitude of gratitude,” so to speak, enables us to see more possibilities, to feel more energy, and to succeed at higher levels in our lives.
Caroline Leaf
The brain is never the same because it changes with every experience you have, every moment of every day—and you control this with your unique thinking, feeling, and choosing. You use your mind to use your brain. You are the architect of your brain.
Caroline Leaf
Sources: cedwardpitt.com, ligonier.org
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