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“Even where Christians maintain an intellectual allegiance to orthodox teaching, years of watching TV and movies have captured hearts and emptied minds.”
― Glynn Harrison, A Better Story: God, Sex And Human Flourishing

“A society that values strong, committed marriages will, by default, nurture the virtues that are critical to the well-being of children: keeping promises, delayed gratification, commitment for the long haul, a focus on education, the blessings of self-control. We”
― Glynn Harrison, A Better Story: God, Sex And Human Flourishing

“Because of the success of the self-esteem industry, the phenomenon of “me first” resonates all around us,”
― Glynn Harrison, Ego Trip: Rediscovering Grace in a Culture of Self-Esteem

“Pursuing self-esteem interferes with establishing and maintaining mutually supportive relationships, because people become focused on themselves at the expense of others’ needs and feelings.”
― Glynn Harrison, Ego Trip: Rediscovering Grace in a Culture of Self-Esteem

“All too often in our self-esteem culture the importance of godly sorrow gets airbrushed out by positive messages of inclusion, acceptance, and self-discovery.”
― Glynn Harrison, Ego Trip: Rediscovering Grace in a Culture of Self-Esteem

“So which is it to be, Benedict or Wilberforce? I think it needs to be both. Realistically, in the short term, most of our energy will need to be expended on preserving confidence in our own communities. As we saw in the last chapter, there is much work to be done in transforming our own communities in ways that will buttress and nurture what we believe. But while sustaining and nurturing these beliefs must be our short-term priority, our hearts, together with our heads, must remain orientated to the welfare of the city where we have been exiled. Clearly,”
― Glynn Harrison, A Better Story: God, Sex And Human Flourishing

“Interestingly, Becker’s work has inspired the development of a new school of psychology that views our efforts at self-esteem as a form of “terror management.”11 Its originators suggest that, as religious belief crumbled in the face of scientific advances, we needed another defense against death, a different kind of belief: “[Self-esteem is] a protective shield designed to control the potential terror that results from awareness of the horrifying possibility that we humans are merely transient animals groping to survive in a meaningless universe.”
― Glynn Harrison, Ego Trip: Rediscovering Grace in a Culture of Self-Esteem

“we need to learn how to stop judging ourselves, accept our biblical status, and live lives motivated by something greater than the pursuit of our own worth.”
― Glynn Harrison, The Big Ego Trip: Finding True Significance In A Culture Of Self-Esteem

“We attempt to plug our aching insecurity with “self-esteem,” but in our hearts we know that it simply will not do. There is something broken at the core of human experience and we need something better, deeper, and more coherent to satisfy our spiritual yearning.”
― Glynn Harrison, Ego Trip: Rediscovering Grace in a Culture of Self-Esteem

“In the biblical concept of grace, the essence of God’s movement toward us is that it happens despite, and not because of, what we are.”
― Glynn Harrison, Ego Trip: Rediscovering Grace in a Culture of Self-Esteem

“modern parents preside over an atmosphere of too much praise, too little failure and insufficient boundary-setting, leaving many young people ill-equipped for the harsh realities of life.”
― Glynn Harrison, The Big Ego Trip: Finding True Significance In A Culture Of Self-Esteem

“CHURCH FOR NARCISSISTS As a consequence of our obsession with choice and individuality, many of the most successful and growing churches have made far-reaching adaptations in their “offer.”
― Glynn Harrison, Ego Trip: Rediscovering Grace in a Culture of Self-Esteem

“In this upside-down world of self-esteem it’s not the sin of pride that we take into the confessional, but the transgression of “not liking myself enough.”
― Glynn Harrison, Ego Trip: Rediscovering Grace in a Culture of Self-Esteem

“Osteen “clearly practices the self-admiration he preaches;”
― Glynn Harrison, Ego Trip: Rediscovering Grace in a Culture of Self-Esteem

“we are driven back to image-management, trying to draw from others the recognition and approval that we can’t convincingly drum up for ourselves.”
― Glynn Harrison, The Big Ego Trip: Finding True Significance In A Culture Of Self-Esteem

“We can be fully sympathetic to the complicated (and mysterious) experience of those who struggle with gender dysphoria, without buying into the new gender ideology that has been built around it.”
― Glynn Harrison, A Better Story: God, Sex And Human Flourishing