Anna Maria Cartaya’s Reviews > Love in Recovery: One Woman's Story of Breaking Free from Shame and Healing from Pornography Addiction > Status Update
Anna Maria Cartaya
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"God is merciful not in spite of our sin but because of it. We think of our sin as an obstacle that god must overcome or overlook in order to love us and have mercy on us. . . . The opposite is true. When we depend on God's mercy in our sinfulness and submit ourselves to him with humble confidence, God is actually delighted and completely undeterred."
— Jan 11, 2025 05:57PM
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Anna Maria Cartaya
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"The very place of your deepest sin and struggle is the very place God has called you to imitate him, to win souls for him."
— Jan 11, 2025 05:59PM
Anna Maria Cartaya
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"When our first reaction and disposition toward encountering others, whether or not we know them well, is to be grateful for them, the lighthearted and humble affectionate love we crave can have fertile ground to grow."
— Jan 05, 2025 07:27PM
Anna Maria Cartaya
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"Porn doesn't just allow abuse, it makes it appealing and the norm. It's deeply heartbreaking, and it didn't change the problem of over-sexualization and abuse of women throughout history; it only made it worse. Not only is sexual suppression and abuse eroticized for men through pornography, but it's also eroticized for women . . ."
— Jan 04, 2025 11:07AM
Anna Maria Cartaya
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“. . . we’re trying to teach people how to not be broken when it comes to sexuality instead of teaching them where to take their inevitable brokenness. The focus has to be on the redemption of Christ, not the virtue of the presenter” (33).
— Jan 02, 2025 12:11PM
