Top 100 Edward T. Welch Quotes
#1. The contrast between earthly and spiritual is not a contrast between the tangible and the intangible; it is between the transitory and the eternal. Earthly is temporary, spiritual is everlasting. [Ed Welch, Running Scared, 127]
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#2. When you erode the fear of death with the knowledge that you already died [in Christ], you will find yourself moving toward a simple, bold obedience.
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#3. Joy is not the opposite of suffering. If it were, a person practiced in joy could crowd out pain because one couldn't exist with the other. Instead, joy can actually be a companion to suffering.
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#4. The perceived meaninglessness of work is often part of depression. It usually, however, is a sign of depression rather than a cause. Death.
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#5. When you wake up to kingdom realities, you find that you are tracing the steps of both the Israelites and Jesus himself into the wilderness ... The wilderness is the place where God meets his people, Satan attacks, and kingdom allegiances are revealed. [Ed Welch, Running Scared, 118]
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#6. God's love is a costly love. It never takes the easy path away from relationships. Instead, it plots how to move towards other people. It thinks creatively of ways to surprise them with love.
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#7. When it comes to addictions, we tend to divide humanity into two groups: those who are prone toward addictions and those who aren't. The reality, of course, is very different. All human beings have already fallen into sin.
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#8. We spend too much time concealing our neediness. We need to stop hiding. Being needy is our basic condition. There is no shame in it - it's just the way it is. Understanding this, accepting it, and practicing it will make you a better helper.
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#9. When happy, we possess something we love; when anxious, something we love is at risk; when despondent, something we love has been lost; when angry, something we love is being stolen or kept from us.
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#10. The fastest way to bring a wrecking ball to our skewed interpretations is through confession.
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#11. The basic idea is to focus on the matchless worth of the Lord God and then get connected to him.
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#12. Speaker says psychology has commandeered "everything hard" and partitioned it from Scripture with the assumption that its causes are biological
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#13. Humans are needy by design. Will we abandon the myth of independence and seek God?
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#14. The gospel is the story of God covering his naked enemies, bringing them to the wedding feast, and then marrying them rather than crushing them.
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#15. I have a new philosophy. I only dread one day at a time. - Charlie Brown
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#16. Knew something about prayer, asked Jesus how to pray (Luke 11:1). Here is where prayer really
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#17. The thing or person you trust in is actually the object of your worship. Look
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#18. For now, what things have you done that you prefer to keep private? What things in your life do you insist on keeping secret? That's where we will find the shame that is attached to what we do.
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#19. Shame is life-dominating and stubborn. Once entrenched in your heart and mind, it is a squatter that refuses to leave.
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#20. When you are confident that you are the Father's treasured possession, you are also confident that his loving care will continue forever. Building warehouses is a waste of time and space. His gifts to you become things you want to give him back in gratitude. Then he gives you even more.
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#21. The details of how faith works in spiritual warfare are well known but easily forgotten.
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#22. No one cares about their reputation or their bank account when they find themselves in the shadow of death.
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#23. You can't have a deeper relationship if you won't allow yourself to be known. All
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#24. Even if medication relieves some of the burden of depression, it may be functioning like aspirin. That is, it takes away some of the symptoms but the root problems persist.
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#25. What is shame?
God identifies it. God experienced it. You are not alone.
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#26. Notice how those who have medicated away their hardships with illegal drugs, alcohol, or sex can seem immature. They may look forty-five, but they have the character of an adolescent. Find a person who has weathered storms rather than avoided them and you will find someone who is wise.
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#27. There is a resiliency in the human spirit that keeps us going even when we have no reason to continue.
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#28. To look to Christ to meet our perceived psychological needs is to Christianize our lusts. We are asking God to give us what we want, so we can feel better about ourselves or so we can have more happiness, not holiness, in our lives.
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#29. Joy is not the opposite of depression. It is deeper than depression. Therefore, you can experience both. Depression is the relentless rain. Joy is the rock. Whether depression is present or not, you can stand on joy.
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#30. Need theories can thrive only in a context where the emphasis is on the individual rather than the community and where consumption is a way of life.
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#31. Shame's hold over you leads you to believe you don't deserve to be rid of shame. As a result, you treat hope as if it were a contaminated substance.
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#32. It is as if we want to believe the lie. Perhaps we blame ourselves because in a strange way it helps us feel as if we have more control. If we are responsible for whatever went wrong, for whatever hurt us, we might be able to figure out how to keep it from happening again.
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#34. They are God's liturgy, prepared for you in advance. How
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#35. You will either fear God or other people. There are no other alternatives.
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#36. The gospel is only available to people who know they are unclean.
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#37. Friends are the best helpers. They come prepackaged with compassion and love. All they need is wisdom, and that is available to everyone.
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#38. To establish a Scriptural counseling relationship, the speaker says we must know the person to the level that they feel like they are known and to the level that we are moved by the hardness of their experience.
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#39. Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on.
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#40. Shame can be removed, and you can still be you. Despite your feeling that your destiny and shame's destiny are identical - that if shame no longer exists, you won't either - the reality is that you will be more you without shame.
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#42. the desire is overwhelming. Why? Because there is availability without accountability.
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#43. Others, and so on. And anything that is opposed to God in our lives is actually one of the many gods of the kingdom of earth. You will always be running scared if you worship other gods, because idols can't deliver on their promises. In the Old Testament, the choice before
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#44. The basic idea is that those who help best are the ones who both need help and give help. A healthy community is dependent on all of us being both.
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#45. The language of shame is extreme. Hear it enough and you believe it. You are told you are disgusting and unclean, and eventually you believe you are.
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#46. Faith is not the presence of warm religious feeling. It's the knowledge that you walk before the God who hears.
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#47. God tests us because we are so oblivious to the mixed allegiances in our hearts. The purpose of the test is to help us see our hearts and if they are found traitorous, we can turn back to God.
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#48. Anxiety asks for more information so it can be prepared for the coming apocalypse. It also asks for more information so it can manage the world apart from God.
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#49. God created you to trust him and love others. When you are not trusting or not loving, you are disconnected from your purpose, and hopelessness will thrive.
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#50. The fear of man is no respecter of persons. It might be called codependency by adults, peer pressure with teens, and shyness with children, but whatever it is called, it all betrays the same idolatrous heart.
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#51. Fear in the biblical sense ... includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people.
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#52. Faith feels many different ways. It can be buoyant; it can be depressed and lifeless. Feelings don't define faith. Instead, faith is simply turning to the Lord.
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#53. When God and spirituality are reduced to our standards or our feelings, God will never be to us the awesome Holy One of Israel. With God reduced in our eyes, a fear of people will thrive.
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#54. Jesus always interpreted hardship in light of the end of the story, and at the end of the story we will be without shame.
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#55. People are most similar to God when he is the object of their affection. People should delight in God, as he does in himself.
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#56. The cure for shame will always be found in how we become connected to God.
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#57. What is shame?
The Son of God, while on a rescue mission of love, was
misunderstood
insulted
betrayed
denied
mocked
spit on
cursed
abandoned
stripped
crucified.
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#58. All it takes is a tradition of demeaning, critical words from the right person. All it takes is nothing from the right person. No interest in you, no words spoken to you, no love. If you are treated as if you do not exist, you will feel shame.
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#59. What is the way out of shame?
It is the way of humility, not humiliation. It is the way of being known, not exposed.
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#60. You don't really know who you are until you have gone through suffering. We can measure our spiritual growth by the way we behave under pressure.
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#61. Hiding. Covering up. Self-protection. Feeling exposed. They are telltale signs of shame.
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#62. Here are some key words to go along with shame: Inferior Alienated Embarrassed Minority Ridiculed Weak Powerless Failure Different Insulted Rejected Inadequate Humiliated Ignored Loser
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#63. What is shame?
You are shunned.
Faces are turned away from you.
They ignore you, as if you didn't exist.
You are naked.
Faces are turned toward you.
They stare at you, as if you were hideous.
You are worthless, and it's no secret.
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#64. What is most important to us? What do we love? What is most dear to us?2 We shouldn't be surprised that these questions get to the core of our being. They also point to where we are headed. All roads eventually lead to our relationship with God. Do we love what he loves? Is he most dear to us?
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#65. Here is the rule: the way you live reveals what you really think about God,
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#66. Then, when shame strikes, it is so nasty you have to numb yourself, and what better anesthetic than your addiction? It is the perfect vicious circle.
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#67. Your neediness qualifies you to help others. Your neediness, offered well to someone else, can even be one of the great gifts you give to your church. You will inspire others to ask for help.
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#68. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.3 What do you see in your own heart?
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#69. The reason Scripture doesn't give clear guidelines for assigning responsibility is that it is not essential for us to know precise causes. This is good news: you don't have to know the exact cause of suffering in order to find hope and comfort.
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#70. Fear has given birth to extreme parenting. It looks like love, but it is love mingled with fear.
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#71. Who we love above all else is who we worship, and who we worship controls us.
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#72. Your future includes manna. It will come. There is no sense devising future scenarios now because God will do more than you anticipate.
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#73. When you are in the grips of low self-esteem, it's painful, and it certainly doesn't feel like pride. But I believe that this is the dark, quieter side of pride - thwarted pride.
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#74. If we think we are usually good, then God is usually irrelevant.
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#75. The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the behavior is wrong.
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#76. Superstitions and eccentric habits are a Western substitute for actual idols.
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#77. Fear of man is always part of a triad that includes unbelief and disobedience.
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#78. If our failure to consistently worship the true God is the key feature of sin, we are sinners all.
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#79. Somehow, turning to God and trusting him with the mysteries of suffering is the answer to the problem of suffering.
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#80. Jesus freely placed your interest above his own. His desire was to elevate your status; in the process he lowered his own. He gave you the royal treatment: he works, you benefit. And you must accept this treatment.
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#81. Sin is guerrilla warfare that is deadly. Just when you think you are in control, it seeks to devour you.
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#82. Worry's magnetic attraction can only be broken by a stronger attraction, and David is saying [in Psalm 27] we can only find that attraction in God Himself.
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#83. Since Jesus became thoroughly identified with sin, he would receive its wrath and judgment in our place. This meant he would experience the worst kind of rejection and alienation from the Father, and he would do this for us.
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#84. Are you worried? Jesus says there is nothing to worry about. It isn't our kingdom, it's God's. We take our cue from the King, and the King is not fretting over anything. He is in complete control.
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#85. A lingering sense that something was very wrong with him. That sense is called shame.
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#86. Scripture assumes that we will be afraid and anxious sometimes. What is important is where we turn, or to whom we turn when we are afraid. The God who calls you to trust in Him when you are afraid will spend a great deal of time showing you that you can trust Him.
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#87. The key to learning the fear of the Lord is to stay in Scripture. When you are in the Scripture, pray that God would teach you that he is the Holy One.
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#88. If God used only experts and people of renown, some could boast in their own wisdom, but God's way of doing things is not the same as our way. We ordinary people have been given power and wisdom through the Holy Spirit and are called to love others (John 13:34).
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#89. Isaiah himself was only more aware of his shame as it stood in contrast to the perfection and purity of the Lord. It brought him to despair at his predicament. But despair is not a bad thing when it compels us to trust in or be associated with God himself.
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#90. Confession is always a good place to start when we feel lost.
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#91. Anything that erodes the fear of God will intensify the fear of man.
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#92. Why would anyone entertain Satan's questions about God's goodness when everything is good? But a few bumps in the road, and our knowledge of God seems fragile, and that's what Satan is counting on.
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#93. We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (a fear of God).
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#94. Suffering nags us with questions about God in a way that comfort never could.
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#95. Ironically, our desire to clean ourselves actually minimizes the problem of uncleanness. It assumes we can give ourselves a good enough scrubbing to get a little holy before we meet the Holy One.
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#96. If you know you have been forgiven, you will forgive and reconcile with others.
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#97. Speaker calls the Christian counselor to look at each person as soul embodied with unique challenges that move us. This is not, he says, the first step before we get on to important business but vital in and of itself.
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#98. The more you read Scripture, the more you actually talk to God rather than think about fear.
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#99. The fear of man is the sinful exaggeration of a normal experience.
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#100. The ordinary is not good enough for us; our hubris wants something grandiose. But the ordinary done in obedience to Christ is beautiful, inspired, and oftentimes heroic.
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