Love Idol: Letting Go of Your Need for Approval - and Seeing Yourself Through God's Eyes QUOTES

2 " Down through the centuries, the Savior has repeatedly lifted the fallen from the holes they've dug for themselves one shovel scoop at a time. After His grand rescue, the Redeemer does not always seal that hole shut behind us. He does not force us into relationship or bully us into repentance. Instead, He leaves us with a choice: follow Me or fall again. "

― Jennifer Dukes Lee , Love Idol: Letting Go of Your Need for Approval - and Seeing Yourself Through God's Eyes

4 " Why do we live in this cycle of validation, swept up by the empty promises of the Love Idol, only to sink down when someone rejects us? We make frenetic jumps from island to island between tidal waves of insecurity. Beth Moore says culture has “thrown us under the bus. We have a fissure down the spine of our souls.”[22] We want to keep up appearances. We want to avoid criticism. We treat our lives like a stat sheet, trying to keep score the world’s way. "

― Jennifer Dukes Lee , Love Idol: Letting Go of Your Need for Approval - and Seeing Yourself Through God's Eyes

6 " Before the foundations of the world, He loved you.
Before the fall of Eden, He loved you. Before He sent His Son splitting through the cosmos to this world, He loved you. Before He died upon the cross, He loved you. When He rose again, He loved you. And He's coming back again because He loves you. When you took your first breath, He loved you. When you messed up bad, He loved you. When you made good grades, He loved you. When you won and when you lost, He loved you. "

― Jennifer Dukes Lee , Love Idol: Letting Go of Your Need for Approval - and Seeing Yourself Through God's Eyes

8 " People in Haiti eat dirt because it gives their starving bodies a false sense of satisfaction. But mud pies don't fill. They merely mask real hunger. [...] I saw the mud pies as a metaphor for the life of any Christian who has ever looked to something or someone other than God for fulfillment. "

― Jennifer Dukes Lee , Love Idol: Letting Go of Your Need for Approval - and Seeing Yourself Through God's Eyes

10 " Ambition is your own yoke, not His! And the lust of wealth, the desire for power, the craving for human love—all that is a yoke of your own making—and if you will wear it, it will gall you. There is more joy in being unknown than in being known and there is less care in having no wealth than in having much of it. We often go the wrong way to work in seeking true restfulness and happiness. "

― Jennifer Dukes Lee , Love Idol: Letting Go of Your Need for Approval - and Seeing Yourself Through God's Eyes

12 " Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. BRENNAN MANNING "

― Jennifer Dukes Lee , Love Idol: Letting Go of Your Need for Approval - and Seeing Yourself Through God's Eyes

14 " Some people talk about “finding God,” but that seemed like a severely inaccurate description of what I was experiencing. It felt more like God was finding me. He wasn’t the lost one—I was. I "

― Jennifer Dukes Lee , Love Idol: Letting Go of Your Need for Approval - and Seeing Yourself Through God's Eyes

16 " Our purpose is to please God, not people” (1 Thessalonians 2:4). But "

― Jennifer Dukes Lee , Love Idol: Letting Go of Your Need for Approval - and Seeing Yourself Through God's Eyes