“Addictions are strategies we use to keep the truth from ourselves by blinding us from seeing what’s true about us.”
― Surfing for God: Discovering the Divine Desire Beneath Sexual Struggle
― Surfing for God: Discovering the Divine Desire Beneath Sexual Struggle
“If you want to identify what your core beliefs are, just look at your brokenness. What are your wounds and weaknesses? They”
― Surfing for God: Discovering the Divine Desire Beneath Sexual Struggle
― Surfing for God: Discovering the Divine Desire Beneath Sexual Struggle
“guilt says, “I have done wrong,” shame says, “I am wrong.”
― Surfing for God: Discovering the Divine Desire Beneath Sexual Struggle
― Surfing for God: Discovering the Divine Desire Beneath Sexual Struggle
“I don’t have any more wisdom in our courage for this journey than you do. Maybe less. But if you could use a traveling companion, I would come along. I would be only like one of those two men on the road to Emmaus, mostly confused myself, with a slow heart that burned within. Maybe together we would be able to discern Christ on the road beside us.”
― Your God is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can't Control
― Your God is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can't Control
“An idol,” wrote Tim Keller, “is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give you.”
― Surfing for God: Discovering the Divine Desire Beneath Sexual Struggle
― Surfing for God: Discovering the Divine Desire Beneath Sexual Struggle
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