“Sadly, one of the most powerful weapons of deception is the use of spiritual language. It does, after all, carry the seeming weight of God behind it. Whenever sin is exposed, it creates a crisis and crises do two things: they reveal character and they are also what we might call "separating" times. A crisis reveals character because in the moments of crisis we do what we have been practicing. We display what we have habituated. We demonstrate what or who we live in obedience to. … A crisis is a revealing time. It reveals what is in the person who has come to you; it will reveal the heart of the one who is accused; it will reveal your heart to you; and it will reveal the heart of the structure or organization that is threatened by the truth.” - Diane Langberg

“Unmanaged anxiety leads to pathology. The more isolated, insignificant and ineffective one feels the greater the felt need for power. People often seek power in an attempt to overcome deficiencies, but power only aggravates the nature of sin and does not palliate it. In other words, whatever sin tendencies or weakness we have, a position of power will make it worse, not better, as we seem to suppose.”

"The survivor needs us to incarnate God for two reasons. One, we all need that. Secondly, this need is intensified for the trauma victim because what has been repeatedly taught to a child in the seen is the antithesis of the truth of God. She has learned about fathers, power, trust, love, and refuge from one who emulated the father of lies. The second aspect of the response is to speak truth. When people have experienced interpersonal evil, especially as children, they carry deeply embedded lies within. Such lies need to be exposed, gently and slowly, so the light of the truth can take their place. There are usually particular aspects of certain memories that burned those lies into the brain and help keep them there." - Diane Langberg

"In my experience, the deep struggles of the soul cannot truly be considered until the trauma victim has experienced a relationship that bears the fragrance of Christ in hard places. We need the Word made flesh first. We also need some of the darkness illuminated so we understand the lies that have been wrapped around our souls from the evil done to us." - Diane Langberg

“The ultimate hiddenness is suicide or death of the shamed one… It causes the self to curl in on itself, hidden and unreachable so as not to be seen.” - Diane Langberg, Suffering and the Heart of God