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41 " our strongest desires are not actually our deepest desires. "
― John Mark Comer , Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace
42 " When people die, we honor and celebrate the best parts of their character. Love, sacrifice, loyalty to family and friends, humility, joy, compassion. All of which required their denial of fleshly desires. So while our culture celebrates the gospel of self-actualization, the type of self you actualize into is still paramount. "
43 " Again, ideas are assumptions about reality. "
44 " My point is simply this: our deepest desires—usually to become people of goodness and love—are often sabotaged by the stronger surface-level desires of our flesh. This is exacerbated by a culture where the widespread wisdom of the day is to follow our desires, not crucify them. But in reality, “Be true to yourself” is some of the worst advice anybody could ever give you. "
45 " Wagstaff added that this “sense of exile, or alienation, may result for the individual who is marginalised, cast adrift, by the inability or unwillingness to conform to the tyranny of majority opinion. "
46 " chronological snobbery,”21 the innate human bias to think we’re smarter than people who came before us and therefore new ideas are naturally better or more truthful than old ones. "
47 " M. Scott Peck, in his groundbreaking book People of the Lie, called the devil “a real spirit "
48 " His basic thesis was that when we believe lies and then let those lies into our bodies, tragically, they often become a kind of upside-down shadow of the truth. "
49 " It is not so much that we tell lies as that we live them.”27 "
50 " My point is this: lies distort our souls and drive us into ruin. "
51 " Ideology is a form of idolatry. It’s a secular attempt to find a metaphysical meaning to life, a way to usher in utopia without God. "
52 " Of course, things aren’t really getting better; there’s a mountain of data to argue they are getting worse. And a short tour of Twitter will reveal that many people are simply freaking out. "
53 " that knowledge—or even truth itself—is a form of oppression. "
54 " Nobody believed he was real…. That was his power. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. "
55 " stronger surface-level desires of our flesh. This is exacerbated by a culture where the widespread wisdom of the day is to follow our desires, not crucify them. But in reality, “Be true to yourself” is some of the worst advice anybody could ever give you. "
56 " context, Jesus had just told his followers that “if you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples,” and as a result, “you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. "
57 " Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. —Edmund Burke, in A Letter from Mr. Burke, to a Member of the National Assembly "
58 " His original role seems to have been the spiritual formation of human beings through testing. "
59 " Solitude is not a private therapeutic place.” Rather, “solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self. "
60 " On earth as it is in heaven,” the devil’s is “On earth as it is in hell. "