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Kelly Minter QUOTES

Kelly Minter QUOTES

1 " What a person has is of no consequence, whether much or little, when it comes to the deep satisfaction of the soul. Apart from Christ, the rich and beautiful, and the poor and unlovely, will all end up in precisely the same misery. "

― Kelly Minter , No Other gods: Confronting Our Modern Day Idols

2 " The harsh reality is that my flesh must die not so much because of what it does, but because of what it is. "

― Kelly Minter , No Other gods: Confronting Our Modern Day Idols

3 " The world is committed to its pleasures, desires, and beliefs. It will seek out and listen to its own teachers. Children of God must listen to the spirit of God. "

― Kelly Minter , What Love Is: The Letters of 1, 2, 3 John (Living Room)

4 " We do not turn from our false gods to become God's children. We turn from them because we are. "

― Kelly Minter , No Other gods: Confronting Our Modern Day Idols

5 " When we live out of pride, we are left to tirelessly protect the single seed of life, but when we live with the posture of humility and die to ourselves, we allow God to turn our one life into an abundant harvest that reaches so far beyond ourselves we will scarcely believe what God can do with a single life that chooses to die in the soil of His hands. "

― Kelly Minter , The Fitting Room: Putting on the Character of Christ

6 " Too often we profess God but look to everything else to function as him. Even perfectly good things. Things that in and of themselves are pure and right and gifts from God but have become a problem simply because of the placement they have in our lives. "

― Kelly Minter , No Other gods: Confronting Our Modern Day Idols

7 " It's much easier to blow our moral police horns on all those transgressors running around than it is to live penetrating lives of holiness. "

― Kelly Minter , The Fitting Room: Putting on the Character of Christ

8 " I think we would do much better as a whole if we focused more compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience than on how all the non-Christians are ruining society with their bad behavior and politics. "

― Kelly Minter , The Fitting Room: Putting on the Character of Christ

9 " Satan will often tell us what is true, but will never tell us the truth. "

― Kelly Minter , No Other gods: Confronting Our Modern Day Idols

10 " If you are loved less, he is the Great Provider. If you are loved more but are still hungry, he is the only One who can suffice. "

― Kelly Minter , No Other gods: Confronting Our Modern Day Idols

11 " Legalism is when we try to obtain the result of obedience by our own means and strength. It is self-righteousness, as opposed to God's righteousness covering us, and the two are as different as spirit and flesh. "

― Kelly Minter , No Other gods: Confronting Our Modern Day Idols

12 " Sometimes I shield myself from finding out what's really going on with people for fear I'll be held responsible. Because with information often comes responsibility; if we know, we might be required to do something "

― Kelly Minter , Nehemiah Member Book: A Heart That Can Break

13 " We all claimed God as our God, but we had been serving lesser things. "

― Kelly Minter , No Other gods: Confronting Our Modern Day Idols

14 " We claimed the Bible as our source of truth, but were our real counselors coming from movie screens and magazines? Perhaps so many of our struggles—lack of freedom, loss of spiritual desire, slavery to image, perfectionism, confusion, and the list is infinite—had much to do with this idea of God and.… The people in 2 Kings were worshipping God, but they were also serving their idols. "

― Kelly Minter , No Other gods: Confronting Our Modern Day Idols

15 " We can travel thirty-one hundred miles to Brazil or we can walk thirty-one feet to our neighbor.” Touché. The truth is both journeys need to be taken. It’s just that we often miss what’s right in front of us for the seemingly greater need across the ocean. It’s like the crowd that had “bigger” work to do with Jesus in Jericho, practically tripping over the guy who lay in the middle of their path. Compassion is not just for the missionary or slum worker over there. It’s not a virtue singled out exclusively for the pastor or AIDS worker. In Colossians 3:12, compassion is the virtue Paul tells every believer to clothe himself in, and he lists it first. "

― Kelly Minter , The Fitting Room: Putting on the Character of Christ

16 " God Himself met my needs, which freed me up from looking for "life" from people. I was free to serve, pray, and give in my relationships. "

― Kelly Minter , No Other gods: Confronting Our Modern Day Idols

17 " So much of what draws us to our personal gods has to do with where our needs are, where we hurt, why we hurt, and how we desire that pain to be satiated. "

― Kelly Minter , No Other gods: Confronting Our Modern Day Idols

18 " But you look for life in lesser things than me all the time, every day. "

― Kelly Minter , No Other gods: Confronting Our Modern Day Idols

19 " Because discipline is not rejection, it is protection and affection, one of the most glorious things God can extend to us. "

― Kelly Minter , No Other gods: Confronting Our Modern Day Idols

20 " For so much of my life I worshipped God: showing up for church, singing hymns, helping in the nursery, reading my Bible, confessing my belief in him. Yet if you could have witnessed what I was controlled by, what motivated and moved me, you would have seen that in many cases it was not God at all, but my idols. Not carved images, but people, career paths, materialism, acceptance, and more. God was getting my worship on some level, but my gods were getting my service. "

― Kelly Minter , No Other gods: Confronting Our Modern Day Idols