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"In numerous studies of girls and women ranging from junior high through adulthood, high levels of social media use are correlated with: - Greater internalization of the thin beauty ideal - More self-objectification - More frequent social comparisons - Higher levels of disordered eating - More desire to have plastic surgery - Greater investment in appearance - Increased depressive symptoms" Renee Engeln, PDH, Beauty Sick:How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women, 2017.

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"The bad news...is that the light exposes our guilt and shame. The good news is that the fear of the Lord exposes us without leaving us shamed, forever guilty, and powerless to change. Rather, it exposes us in order to cover out shame, cleanse the guilty conscience, give grace to change, and restore fellowship with God and others." Edward T. Welch, Addictions: A Banquet in the Grave

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"We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." C.S. Lewis The Weight of Glory

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"God is vastly patient and relentlessly persevering as He intrudes into your life. God's love is full of blood, sweat, tears, and cries. He suffered for you. He fights for you, pursuing you in powerful tenderness so he can change you. He's jealous, not detached. The Lord's love for his children is no tame love. It is not characterized by calm detachment, His love is good in a way that is vigorous and complex." David Powilson, Seeing with New Eyes