Quotes from Martyn Lloyd Jones in Spiritual Depression: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Depression-Its-Causes-Cure/dp/0802813879

“His soul had been depressing him, crushing him. So he stand up and says, ‘self, listen for a moment, I will speak to you.’ Most of our unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.”

“The main art in the matter of spiritual living is to know how to handle yourself. You have to take yourself in hand, you have to address yourself, preach to yourself, question yourself. You must say to your soul: Why art thou cast down- what business have you to be disquieted? You must turn on yourself, upbraid yourself, condemn yourself, exhort yourself, and say to yourself: ‘Hope thou in God instead of muttering in this depressed unhappy way’ And then you must go on to remind yourself of God, who God is, and what God is and what God has done, and what God has pledged himself to do. Then having done that, end on this great note: defy yourself, and defy other people, and defy the devil, and the whole world, and say with this man: ‘I shall yet praise him for the help of this countenance, who is also the health of my countenance and my God.”

Matthew 12:36

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” – GK Chesterton

Matthew 4:3-10
Romans 10:9
Proverbs 18:21

The Devil will mumble, God’s truth must be proclaimed

We’ll think I shouldn’t be doing this, but never think I shouldn’t be thinking this.

Negativity 7x more sticky than positive. Language affects tenfold

The negative is resilient & reinforcing, you don’t need to help it.

We’re inherently skeptical of the positive.

Lies will be mumbled, so truth must be proclaimed.

Just because you thought it doesn’t mean the thought is good.

Your spoken words have power.

The devil will number, truth must be proclaimed.