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“Remember, confrontation is about reconciliation and awareness, not judgement or anger.”
― Dale Partridge

“Marriage isn’t hard because we have to deal with the opposite sex. It’s hard because it’s the first time we must deal with ourselves.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
― Dale Partridge, People Over Profit: Break the System, Live with Purpose, Be More Successful

“Every day you have a choice to be honest or deceptive. If you commit to telling the truth, you will win. You’ll win more trust, you’ll win more business, and you’ll win more peace of mind. You’ll break the system and be even more successful.”
― Dale Partridge, People Over Profit: Break the System, Live with Purpose, Be More Successful

“Maturity is choosing to walk in godly character traits that are not natural to your personality.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“CULTURE SAYS: Follow your heart and pursue what makes you happy.

WHAT GOD HAS TAUGHT ME: Your heart wasn't designed to be followed but to be led by My Holy Spirit.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts higher than your thoughts.
ISAIAH 55:8-9”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“Christians are powerful when joined with others in biblical community. — DALE PARTRIDGE”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“When it comes to headcoverings, there is a right and wrong view here. In other words, someone will be wrong.
If headcoverings are biblical and binding, as I will argue, then those who omit obedience to this command are sinning, even if by ignorance. However, if headcoverings are not binding for today, then those who commit themselves to this practice are not in sin but merely honoring their own conscience. That is to say, the party of omission of obedience holds greater risk before God.”
― Dale Partridge, A Cover for Glory: A Biblical Defense for Headcoverings

“Building an openhanded rather than closefisted company turns out to be a great business strategy.”
― Dale Partridge, People Over Profit: Break the System, Live with Purpose, Be More Successful

“maturity is never earned through the escape of something tough. It’s earned through the commitment of remaining faithful in the face of struggle, even when it doesn’t make sense to our flesh.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. - 1 Timothy 6:7-10”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“in business, vulnerability works differently than in other realms of life. When you’re willing to share wins and losses, successes and failures, you’ll build more trust and loyalty among your core customers. In this way, being weak will make you stronger.”
― Dale Partridge, People Over Profit: Break the System, Live with Purpose, Be More Successful

“The thirst for more is not evil itself, but it is often the gateway to something that is.”
― Dale Partridge, People Over Profit: Break the System, Live with Purpose, Be More Successful

“If you're gifted at something but not qualified, then you'll eventually be exposed. If you're qualified but not gifted, you'll be respected but not effective. You need both.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“Our mind-sets and our results are deeply connected. Because many leaders today have a broken view of success, they live broken lives. I was one of these leaders. But through my relationship with Matt, I began to redefine the terms I’d been living by. I was saved from “success.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“Christians, however, are powerful when joined with others in biblical community. Not only do we reap the deep waters of affection and devotion, but we are less inclined to morally fall when we are willing to commit, to know, and to be known. In turn, our lives are a threat to the work of our Enemy, and we are protected through wisdom, counsel, and our willingness to be surrounded by friends who offer correction and loving rebuke.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“If you want something you’ve never had, you must do something you’ve never done. Most people’s dreams are bigger than their nine-to-five paychecks. Which means if you have big vision, strong calling, or a desire to make huge change, your job by itself likely won’t fund it. Something must change. For us, it meant self-employment. For you, it might simply require adding an income stream, launching an online store, or making an investment. Either way, big change demands two things: time and money. If you’re stuck under a financial ceiling and chained to an emotionless forty-hour work week, you might be clipping your own wings. Escaping the prison of the professional employee isn’t easy. Make a plan and attack it. And chip away at the concrete that holds you in. You only get one life. Don’t spend it inside the walls of a job that’s holding you back.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“Community is made up of a couple components. Two are highly unpopular. The first is honesty. Think about the three closest people to you. How far are you willing to let them in? Do they know the state of your marriage, the condition of your obedience to God’s commands, and the darkest struggles of your life? As I mentioned earlier, the Bible instructs us to “bear one another’s burdens.” It doesn’t support culture’s “come this far but no farther” approach to intimacy. So if you don’t have honesty, you don’t have community.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“CULTURE SAYS: Impressing the world is the currency of success.

GOD HAS TAUGHT ME: Seek My approval and your best life will follow.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“Someone once told me that there’s no feeling more depressing than climbing the ladder of success only to realize that you’re on top of the wrong building.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“Children are not a distraction from the more important work. They are the most important work.” — DR. JOHN TRAINER”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“As you pursue your calling with patience, you'll encounter many assignments in many seasons. Be faithful in those assignments, but don't confuse them for your ultimate purpose.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“Calling is much more than work to be done; it is work that must be done.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. - 1 Corinthians 3:18-19”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“VULNERABILITY + ACCESSI BILITY = TRANSPARENCY”
― Dale Partridge, People Over Profit: Break the System, Live with Purpose, Be More Successful

“CULTURE SAYS: Children will impede your dreams. WHAT GOD HAS TAUGHT ME: Children should be the dream.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“You were born with the ability to change someone's life; don't ever waste it.”
― Dale Partridge

“Now structure without the Spirit will leave us only with a moral association of infertile people—a gathering of individuals polished in formation but bankrupt in spiritual power. Like all things of the Christian life, “Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it” (Ps. 127:1).”
― Dale Partridge, House Church: The Doctrines, Convictions & Order of Worship of a Biblical House Church

“The second component is accountability. Because the Bible instructs us to “confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed,” we must be willing to confront or be confronted by one another when we exhibit unhealthy patterns. Furthermore, we must be inclined to submit ourselves to the authority of not just our leaders but our peers. You see, our community’s prayer life is directly connected to our shared life. We can only pray for and bear together the burdens we know about. Independence isn’t the path to freedom but to captivity. Autonomy isn’t the way to painlessness but to quiet suffering. If you don’t have accountability, you don’t have community. How many divorces would have been prevented if people were in true community? How many suicides would have been stopped? How many cries for help would have been heard? How many bankruptcies would have been avoided? How many affairs would have been evaded? How many needs would have been met? Now, there’s nothing more stressful than trying to solve a problem that has no solution. So where do you go from here? How can you find biblical community? How can you begin pursuing a life of real Christian relationships? You have two options: you either plant it or find it. You either seek God’s navigation for your life and ask Him to reveal the remnants of counter-cultural, biblical communities that are scattered across the world, or you create it. Now as many of you know, it’s just about impossible to create something you’ve never experienced. That’s why Veronica and I have chosen to devote the rest of our lives to helping people find this. If you’re interested in learning more, consider our nonprofit program at UnlearnChurch.org.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life