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The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion QUOTES

1 " Things changed when my phone outsmarted me. Once Facebook had a permanent place in my pocket, it became a permanent portal—able to transport me away from my family. Even if we were physically in the same room, I wasn’t necessarily there with them. Facebook was no longer simply a naptime vacation but an all-day form of escapism. "

― , The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

2 " Lay down Facebook and lift up your face. Put down Facebook so that you might spend some undistracted time face-to-face with Him. Your face in His book: that’s the Facebook you need right now. "

― Wendy Speake, , The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

3 " When our children have our intention, they don’t need to get our attention. Andy Crouch explained the phenomenon this way: “An awful lot of children born in 2007 . . . have been competing with their parents’ screens their whole lives. "

― , The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

4 " Don't forget that the a apple on the back of your phone has a bite taken out of it —there is temptation at every turn. "

― , The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

5 " A social media fast is not about keeping technology in its rightful place. Oh, no! This is about keeping God in His rightful place: at the center of our attention and affection. "

― , The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

6 " Have you bought into the lie that “You are what you tweet”? Spend forty days discovering who God says you are. Your identity is not found in how witty or pithy your 280 characters can be. You are a child of God, made in His likeness. Shut down Twitter and open up your Bible. Spend your time digging into the Word and discover who you are there, based on God’s opinion. "

― , The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

7 " C. S. Lewis once wrote, “There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan.” Our good God wants to use social media for our good and His glory, but Satan is hell-bent on owning that territory and using it for our distracted demise. This is true in everything. God wants us focused; Satan loves us frazzled. God wants us devoted; Satan loves it when we’re distracted. God wants us content; Satan loves us discontent—dissatisfied, depressed, and dejected. God wants us to know His incomparable love, while the devil wants us comparing our lives with others as we search for a di erent sort of love—a love that looks more like “likes. "

― , The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

8 " If you habitually look for love and companionship online, when the love of God is found in the companionship of Christ, then social media isn’t good for you. Perhaps you need a short forty-day break to connect with God. Disconnecting from that which is less good frees you up to connect with the One who is most good. With His help, when this fast is over you might be able to set boundaries around your online relationships that allow you to enjoy those good gifts in light of the good Gift-Giver. But if you can’t, then don’t reengage online. All things may be allowed, but if they don’t allow you to stay focused on the satisfying goodness of God, then they aren’t good for you. "

― , The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

9 " It's possible that the people you follow online have come between you and the One who said, “Follow Me. "

― , The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

10 " When I turn to my phone to cope
with stress, I don’t return to my family
more able to handle the stress. When
I sneak away to social media, I don’t
return to my husband and children more socially available. When I put my face in Facebook, rather than the Good Book, I don’t find the help I need when it’s time to face my family again. "

― , The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

11 " Nothing in my life has made loving God with all my heart, soul, and mind more di cult than my constant connection to my devices. The same is true when it comes to loving my real-life neighbors. Devices are divisive. "

― , The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

12 " If you nd yourself constantly thirsty for more, never quite satis ed no matter how often you go back to draw from the well of social media or online streaming and shopping, then you’ve likely been drinking from a well that was never meant to satisfy you. Like it or not, we all tend to forsake the spring of living water and dig our own cisterns. They’re broken and, as a result, so are we. Still, we keep at it. And the more broken we become, the more fervent our search for happiness.
Each ping, buzz, and noti cation triggers a dopamine release in our brains, synthetically creating a short sensation of happi- ness. We’ve become chemically and emotionally addicted to these short-lived highs. That’s why I’ve decided to put my foot down by putting my phone down, so that I might pick up the joy-inducing presence of God instead. "

― Wendy Speake, , The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

13 " We struggle to interact with those we love, because we’re chasing after those we “like. "

― Wendy Speake, , The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

14 " Exchange your online distractions for real-life devotion. "

― Wendy Speake, , The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

15 " While our smart devices offer us an easy way to nd anything in the world, they can also be a distraction from the things that can’t be found with a Google search. "

― , The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

16 " Each time I step back from the clutter of the online world, I’m amazed how much time is freed up to declutter my real world. "

― , The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

17 " The ones I love must never take a back seat to those I “like. "

― , The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

18 " Opening my phone closes me off to others, but closing my phone opens me up to those around me. "

― , The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

19 " While we might believe prayer works, we don’t have the time to get on our knees because we’re on our phones. "

― , The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

20 " A life spent in fellowship with God isn’t just a good life, it’s the best life—and that best life segues into
a forever life of eternal fellowship. How wonderful! Fast from that which feels good temporarily in order to experience the only One who is good eternally, who holds your best life in the palm of His gracious hand. Is that thing you hold in your hand separating you from the One who holds you in His?
Is social media bad? No, maybe not, but for the next forty days, let’s set it down under the lamplight of Jesus’s words: “Only God is truly good. "

― , The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion