Quotes of: Counsel Keyword

Any counseling that does not pursue spiritual formation through an intimate relationship with Jesus by faith as one of its chief goals is not worthy to be called BIBLICAL counseling.

Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

Many pastors would rather preach God's Word and keep their distance than invest in a personal one-on-one counseling ministry. Most pastors counsel because they have to, not because they want to.

Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

Counseling is ultimately not about the counselee or the counselor, but about the Divine Counselor.

Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.

Discipline: The Glad Surrender

If counseling is to be restored to the church, affection must be restored to reflection. If counseling is to be restored to the church, delight in God must be restored to doctrines about God. Savoring Christ must be restored to seeing Christ. Tender ...

Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

In love and war don't seek counsel.

French

Keep counsel of thyself first.

English

Grief is light that is capable of counsel.

Traditional

Those who counsel do not pay.

Belgian

If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in the journey toward growth and change.

Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

It is in the nature of helping and counselling to be a process moving towards something rather than arriving at a state of completion.

First Steps In Counselling: A Student's Companion for Basic Introductory Courses

Given counsel is all the same hard to take.

Norwegian

It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.

Jules Verne

To give counsel to a fool is like throwing water on a goose.

Danish

Everybody knows good counsel except him that has need of it.

German

Give neither counsel or salt till you are asked for it.

Traditional

Word-centered people who enter counseling will be more likely follow the guidance set out in Scripture. Because they know more of the depth of their sin, they are more willing to allow other church members to help them stay on that right path.

Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, "How can I pray for you?

Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

Most counseling cases today involve good desires that have become overgrown. In these cases most relevant passages of Scripture may not be those that rebut particular manifestations of sin, but those that remind us to love God with all our hearts.

Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims

One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, 'suicide counseling.'

Rafael Cruz