Mo Isom > Quotes

“We are certain others have it so much more together than we do. We are convinced others are more favored and blessed, are doing more important work for the kingdom, and surely are more valuable even in God’s eyes. We are relentless dismantlers of our own self-worth. We evaluate, we rank, we categorize and subcategorize. We covet, we grow envious, we get competitive, and we harbor resentment. We want, we want, and we want. All because we’ve missed what we already have.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“Do we truly love another if we aren’t helping to guard their heart, their body, and their spirit in purity and in obedience”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. (Rom. 12:9–10 ESV)”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“A pure heart compels us to make decisions that don’t seek first to please ourselves but rather to please a holy God. A pure heart compels us to surrender our lives and follow His leading, even when it’s hard. A pure heart compels us to take our thoughts captive, recognize our temptations, and surrender our minds and our bodies to things that are pleasing to God. A pure heart compels us to turn away from a sin-filled world and set our focus on things that bring hope and life. Actions that are uplifting and edifying and good. Choices that don’t lead us wandering into gray areas but keep us on a straight and narrow course toward His glory.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“of God’s crushing presence I felt a sudden awareness flood over me that even though we were the only two people in my apartment, we were absolutely not alone.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“believers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable and worthy of respect, whatever is right and confirmed by God’s word, whatever is pure and wholesome, whatever is lovely”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“instead we stay silent and leave far too many hurting hearts feeling like they are the only ones weak enough to have given in to these broken things.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“The world has so massively exalted, worshiped, and stolen ownership of all things sex-related that the church has, at times, lost footing and leverage in the fight for young people’s attention.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“When we are viewing porn, we are a part of the epidemic. We are a silent financial partner in the booming business of human trafficking.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“sex sells” in mainstream media and the reason the porn industry is thriving is because marketers, producers, investors”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“Physically, sex includes a beautiful range of acts and expressions. Mentally, sex is a catalyst for the activation of unbelievably powerful neurotransmitters in our minds. Emotionally, sex is an expression of love, surrender, trust, and sacrificial service to another. And spiritually, sex is a tangler of souls,”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“People pumped full of rules but robbed of guidance toward the greater why will always be dehydrated of love. And afflicted with desperation, addiction, and a lack of direction in their lives. But what’s beautiful is that “When”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“act. Or just an emotional act. Or just a mentally engaged decision. We can rationalize”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“sin is a death sentence to a freeing, Christ-centered relationship—it’s a thief of genuine peace as you grow to know another’s heart and they pursue your own. It complicates”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“we begin to see the holy and hope-filled Word of God as a rule book rather than a love letter written to our hearts. A layered and wisdom-soaked love letter gently explaining the deep-rooted whys that compel us to live differently from the start.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“For our salvation, Jesus has paid that sacrificial price. But for our sanctification, we are called to make sacrifices too.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“We are creatures made to worship. But because we are fallen, because we rebelled, we quickly choose to worship ourselves, and that is where our sexual sin begins—not in choosing to be bad but choosing to be our own, despite recognizing we were created as His.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“isolated, guilt-ridden, shamed. Juggling our rationalizations, stifling our”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“Isn’t it amazing how adaptable our hearts are to harboring sin? Our sin-nature is like a chameleon, disguising itself to look however it needs to look in order to make us feel like our sin isn’t too much. Too far. Too messy. As if sin has a grading scale we can negotiate. We always could be worse, couldn’t we?”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“what type of content it consumes. There is no changing the hard-hearted trajectory of a sex-crazed culture fueled by big money. But I don’t care how desperately the world tries to spin facts and figures to counter”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“my own life and from my personal testimony that what I was listening to, watching, being entertained by, and mindlessly consuming had a direct, devastating,”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“sacrifice”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“You are seen. You are known. You are purposed. You are loved.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“We could all just blame porn as the one and only bad guy and point fingers and lodge complaints and then go back to not having to think too much”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“came in never truly talking about, praying about, or outlining our physical boundaries in dating. We had talked about our big-picture stance on things—the fact”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“give a look inside my own personal failings rather than to instruct or to preach. Because at nineteen years”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“Who has a mess of a testimony that was nurtured and redeemed by a King who makes our hopeless things holy.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“the desire to be bad people; we revolted with the desire to be”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“skilled and practiced we are at keeping things hidden from sight, whatever is done in the darkness eventually comes to light. Luke 8:17 boldly reminds us,”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot