Quotes about Addiction

When addiction runs in your family, you can't take chances. You can't try it once to see what it's like. One time can be the beginning of something you can't stop.

The Israelites give ample proof that signs may only addict us to signs, not to God.

Alcoholics Anonymous discovered long ago that the path toward cure involves more than a quick-fix solution based on increased knowledge. In fact, it involves a change that seems more theological than educational. Somehow the "victim" of addictive behavior must regain an underlying sense of human dignity and choice, a profound reawakening that usually requires much time, attention, and love.

I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity.

If social media is used as a way for people to celebrate others and share life together around the world and talk about Jesus and the gospel, then social media is great. But if social media is where you are getting your approval and if it's your drug, then social media is going to kill you. Tweet that.

All evils to which so many become addicted begin in the mind and in the way one thinks.

Secret worship is all about something in this world that seems so attractive on the outside but will devour you on the inside. Pornography

Most of our addictions [shopping, food, bad relationships] as women flare up when we feel that we are not loved or sought after.

You will discover that freedom comes only as you bring unsanctified and unholy places under the rule of Jesus Christ, so that he can possess these very places deeply and truly. Therefore, part of this first step involves sanctifying the place of bondage to Christ. If it's emotional (as with rage) you sanctify your emotions; if it involves addiction you sanctify your obsession, and your body.

If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.

Unfortunately, with addiction, there's manipulation and deception.

The drunken man is a living corpse.