Quote by Jay E. Adams Download Open image ““Nouthetic counseling, then, necessarily embodies involvement of the deepest sort.”” — Jay E. Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“By instinct, habit, and enculturation, all of us tend to think of counseling as a human-with-human interaction. But in fact a human-with-Savior interaction must… — David A. Powlison Copy Share Image
“Counseling that attempts to logically teach new truth without concern for the emotional threat involved in changing one’s approach to meeting personal needs will… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
“The role of the therapist is to reflect the being/accepting self that was never allowed to be in the borderline.” — Michael Adzema Copy Share Image
“...good counsel: generosity, longevity, acceptance, relinquishment, letting the world come to me -- and, with these things to make a life.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“No matter how much the therapists over the eighteen months have told me that talking will help, I don’t believe them.” — Ruth Dugdall Copy Share Image
“No, I have not sought counselling nor do I intend to seek it. I am a grown man. I am not receptive to being… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“I've always regarded therapy more as a calling than a profession, a way of life for people who care about others.” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“A therapist has to have clear boundaries, even with former clients. People already get into our heads—if they also get into our lives, there’s… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“When your story and the corresponding core beliefs get activated, they can disrupt or sabotage your attempts at creating healthy relationships.” — Michelle Skeen Copy Share Image
“Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.” — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“If you reach a point where you are considering relationship counseling, you might as well cut your losses and move on to a new… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“No man is free to ignore God’s standards. No one has the right to choose not to serve God, for God has made man… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“Wherever the Spirit of the Lord is at work, one of the discernible evidences of His presence is changed personalities. Men can and do… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“When clients think they are helpless, that some strange mysterious force is at work overpowering them, and they say that I Corinthians 10:13 does… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“While victories in the struggle are possible through Christ (vs. 25), they do not come easily or apart from daily battles involving just such… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“But even that distress must be balanced by enthusiastic hope. It is his task always to sound the note of biblical optimism that is… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“The fourth response is Christian: “It can be solved through Christ.” Notice that the first three responses leave the problem intact and as a… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“Nowhere does the Bible say that one must wait for change. Jesus did not ask people to wait. He expected and effected change right… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“the Christian cheerfully asserts the possibility of thorough, rapid change. This is a very crucial plank in the Christian counselor’s platform. As a basic… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“There are at least seven separately definable elements involved in biblical change. These cannot be viewed merely as successive steps, since most of them… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“We are to vigorously and violently demolish all the fortifications of the foe, winning the battle and talking him captive for Christ. The Church… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“Most cases of child discipline may be solved by establishing structure that will lead to the reenforcement of the biblical principles established for the… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“Counselees continually confuse learned behavior patterns with inherited nature (phusis). Counselors may take it as a rule that any quality of life, attitude of… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image