784 quotes found
“I bought salvation from a man on the street. He said, "Go down to the beach and let the waves wash your feet.”
“We all have those things that help us carry on through life. It is important that these things upon which we depend for daily strength are healthy for our character rather than harmful. We must ask...”
“God made you for His pleasure. And He made you intrinsically needy and dependent on His unspeakable joy. If you are struggling with sin our addiction, dont try to kill your appetite for pleasure. I...”
“You can't solve a spiritual problem with a physical solution.”
“It will all be over in 2 weeks”
“I understand addiction now. I never did before, you know. How could a man (or a woman) do something so self-destructive, knowing that theyre hurting not only themselves, but the people they love? I...”
“Jesus came to bring life more abundantly. He came to save the soulsick, to deliver those bound up in sin, to break the chains of bondage and addiction. He came to heal the hurting, and comfort and ...”
“Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, i...”
“Darkness always causes fear and chaos inside us. We are always scared of losing ourselves somewhere inside there. But some of us get so much used to it that we start feeling peaceful in there and w...”
“In all of your living, don't forget to live.”
“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the...”
“There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)”
“One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self...”
“Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.”
“Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it'll all get better and better as y...”
“Just because you have baggage doesn't mean you have to lug it around.”
“I've had so much of you in such little time that I shouldn't be suffering from withdrawal!”
“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”
“Men are a compilation of every experience and relationship they have ever lived through. Some experiences have bettered your man while others have battered him. The man standing before you is the r...”
“My fear of abandonment is exceeded only by my terror of intimacy.”
