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(From page 179) “Only Christianity can both warn us to avoid sexual sin and welcome us back in after it.”

“When we become convinced that sexual brokenness or trauma will forever define us, we idolize sex or trauma over God’s healing. The story of Christianity is better than that.”

(From page 178) “Pornography is not empowerment. It is rampant human degradation. Turning away does not mean we respect privacy, it means we ignore the abuse of precious image bearers.”

“You are an embodied human soul, dignified not because of what you can do but because of who God made you to be. Nothing we can create will ever outdo or replace what God created. That is good news.”

“Modern technology use is our Tower of Babel because it tries to make us gods. And it’s killing us instead.”

“Because of the work of Jesus, God uses hard things to make us stronger.”

“Grace means that at the end of my patience, there is more patience.”

(In the context of parenting young children): “Sleep deprivation is torturous when meaningless, but it becomes spiritual formation when offered in love.”

“Feasting is the call to do the hard work of joy, for the easiest thing in the world is to be serious and cynical, but the harder (and more Christian) thing to do is fight for laughter and levity.”

“…fasting is often the beginning of seeing myself more clearly, which is what makes fasting so wonderful. In that space of lack and frustration, I have to turn to God, for there are no other coping solutions left.”

“Obsessing about the brain and mental health leads to an excessively inward life consumed by self-care, while focusing on the brain as something you can garden in order to live a life of love leads to the outward life God made us for.”