"Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires,……" — Elyse Fitzpatrick
"Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God"
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17 Quotes by Elyse Fitzpatrick
Elyse Fitzpatrick has 17 quotes on this site.
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The depressed don't simply need to feel better. They need a Redeemer who says, "Take heart, my son, my daughter;…
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This is the freeing truth you can learn through your depression: You weren't created to love and worship anything more…
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Unless we're very intentional about meditating on these truths [that show God's love], they slip from our thoughts like misty…
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Every way that we try to make our kids good that isn’t rooted in the good news of the life,…
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Believe that God is strong enough to save your children, no matter how you fail.
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We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God's grace is…
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We forget the gospel when we neglect our adoption and think that we're still just a hired servant. The Father…
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Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.
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In your pursuit of godliness, have you left Jesus behind?
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I wish I hated my own sin as much as I hate everyone else's.
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The curse of death for disobedience has been silenced because, for believers, there is no longer any Law we have…
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If in God's loving plan you have to bow before what appears to be a frowning providence, you can be…
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More Desire Quotes
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
— Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
— Richard Bach
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
— Neil Armstrong
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated…
— Chinua Achebe
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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