Love Idol: Letting Go of Your Need for Approval - and Seeing Yourself Through God's Eyes
Jennifer Dukes Lee
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Christ continually shouts through the universe, "You have a love that is already yours. You have nothing to prove to anyone. You have nothing to prove to Me. You are significant and preapproved and utterly cherished. Not because you are 'good,' but because you are Mine.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Until you are convinced of God's incredible love for you, you will continue looking for replacement love everywhere but in the heart of Christ.”
“Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. BRENNAN MANNING”
“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.”
“We slay the Love Idol at the site of the Crucifixion, nailing it to the cross.”
“Until you are convinced of God’s incredible love for you, you will continue looking for replacement love everywhere but in the heart of Christ.”
“When believers come to know God's love heart-deep, we are compelled to live into that love life-deep. To be preapproved means this: We love from our approval, not for our approval. We love without expecting anything in return.”
“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”
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love-idol, love, approval, crucifixion, idols, approval-of-others, god-s-love
