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

“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

“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

“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

“for what breaks Yours and bind my heart to Thee. Give me eyes to see the world as You do. Give me ears to hear the cries of others and to love them as You do. Give me wisdom to separate what is of the world and what is of You. Give me courage to walk in Your truth. Lord, make me more like Jesus. Make me more like You.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“. It helps to start”
― 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

“material. We are drowned in constant visual content that battles for allegiance and infatuation in our hearts. And we are blinded by all we see and all we are watching, all that muddies clear vision of God’s desire for purity.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“true why intended at the root of virginity. It is the greater source God always intended to be the compelling force for our actions and our discretion in all things.”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“takes things a step further by separating us from humanity and dignity toward our own bodies too. It is one that not only divides us from God but also from ourselves as we voluntarily”
― Mo Isom, Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot

“never ours to define. Humanity’s attempt at defining love has been a long and incompetent effort to wrap insufficient words and wide-sweeping descriptions around a God-sized invention better”
― 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

“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

“Darkness and light are the same to you. (Ps. 139:1–12)”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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