C. Terry Warner

It is difficult to overestimate the corrosive power of agitated feelings.

Learning the truth about a problematic condition in our physical bodies enables us to take steps to find the remedy. As they say, the diagnosis is half the cure. But with emotions and relationships, the truth is the cure. In the realm of emotions and attitudes, as we will discover in this book, honest self-understanding liberates us from our stuck emotions.

Being honest with ourselves is the key.

are seeking to understand the source of our troubled, afflicted emotions and attitudes and the way they foul our relationships with others. Here is a clue: those times when we feel most miserable, offended, or angry are invariably the occasions when we’re also most absorbed in ourselves and most anxious or suspicious or fearful, or in some other way concerned about ourselves.

Self-betrayal occurs when we go against the feelings I have just described—when we do to another what we sense we should not do, or don’t do what we sense we should. Thus self-betrayal is a sort of moral self-compromise, a violation of our own personal sense of how we ought to be and what we ought to do.

sin is anything you cannot do wholeheartedly