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No Other gods: Confronting Our Modern Day Idols QUOTES

No Other gods: Confronting Our Modern Day Idols 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 " 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

4 " 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

5 " 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

6 " 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

7 " 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

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

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

9 " 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

10 " 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

11 " 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

12 " 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

13 " 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

14 " 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

15 " I wonder if Leah ever grasped within her lifetime that though Jacob had chosen Rachel, God had chosen her. "

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

16 " After many stabs at this I found out—probably a hundred years after everyone else—that this is actually impossible when it comes to people or things. No matter how virtuous or overflowing with integrity and love a friend or spouse may be, no person can possibly always be there for you. "

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

17 " Open-mindedness is celebrated as the ultimate virtue, though it’s imperative to note that the only time you can’t be open-minded is if you’re open to the possibility of there being only one God with one gospel. That "

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

18 " John Calvin put it similarly: “The evil in our desire typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much. "

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

19 " No matter how virtuous or overflowing with integrity and love a friend or spouse may be, no person can possibly always be there for you. This is a place reserved solely for God, a position that only he is capable of, though our experience of his presence is not nearly as consistent as the reality of it. "

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