Saved from Success Quotes

“Marriage isn’t hard because we have to deal with the opposite sex. It’s hard because it’s the first time we must deal with ourselves.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“Maturity is choosing to walk in godly character traits that are not natural to your personality.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“Reputation for the Christian is a balancing act of faith. We must be in the world but not of it. We must honor others but not more than we honor Him...How do you achieve a good reputation? By humbling yourself, pleasing God, and developing good character.

A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, Loving favor rather than silver and gold.

-Proverbs 22:1”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“If chasing something would diminish your dignity or the dignity of others, that is not your calling. If embracing something would require feeding your sense of ego or greed, that is not your calling. You may be tempted to believe that your values and your calling are flexible, but God's call never compromises His Word. Calling must flow from your beliefs and convictions and priorities, rather than push against them.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“CULTURE SAYS: Follow your heart and pursue what makes you happy.

WHAT GOD HAS TAUGHT ME: Your heart wasn't designed to be followed but to be led by My Holy Spirit.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“As you pursue your calling with patience, you'll encounter many assignments in many seasons. Be faithful in those assignments, but don't confuse them for your ultimate purpose.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“God has far more work to do in us than through us. Meaning while we're looking out, toward our destiny, He's looking in at our maturity.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“If you're gifted at something but not qualified, then you'll eventually be exposed. If you're qualified but not gifted, you'll be respected but not effective. You need both.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“Obsession with
Reading The Bible
+
Fanatical
Prayer Life
=
Rapid Spiritual
Maturation
->
Calling
Revealed”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“The world will try to tell you that you need stuff to be successful. But don't listen to them. It's a lie that will land you in a life you never wanted. It will put you on a treadmill that will promise you progress but take you nowhere.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“CULTURE SAYS: If you've got lots of money, relax; you're standing on thick ice.

WHAT GOD HAS TAUGHT ME: If you've got lots of money, be watchful; you're standing on thin ice.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. - 1 Timothy 6:7-10”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad and easy to travel is the path that leads the way to destruction and eternal loss, and there are many who enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow and difficult to travel is the path that leads the way to [everlasting] life, and there are few who find it.

-Matthew 7:13-14”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. - 1 Corinthians 3:18-19”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“CULTURE SAYS: Impressing the world is the currency of success.

GOD HAS TAUGHT ME: Seek My approval and your best life will follow.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“To call yourself a follower of Christ, you must be willing to relinquish the authority of your life to Him. You must allow His cross to do its deadly work to your flesh.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts higher than your thoughts.
ISAIAH 55:8-9”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“Over time, through the power of the Holy Spirit, I began to transform my thoughts from cultural to Christian. I learned that who I come home to is more important than the house I come home to. I learned that people are more impactful than places. I learned that God’s approval was more significant than earthly fame. I learned that money isn’t the measure of my worth.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“We must be enthusiastic to please our God, not our fellow man.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“It’s clear: culture’s distorted definition of success will leave you vacant, broken, and washing up against the rocks of an empty glass. However, let this book be a sword. A piece of truth warring against an enemy disguised as a friend. Let it be the eyes you need to find yourself. The ears required to hear the code. Oblivion is the way of the wide. Its burden is a feather of iron. But truth always comes at the cost of change, growth, and resistance. I’d like to close this book by exploring the concept of maturity. I’ve defined maturity as “choosing to walk in godly character traits that are not natural to your personality.” In other words, conforming our flesh, our mind, our emotions, and our hearts to the Word of God.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“If you want to be successful, show the world your age, not your youth. — DALE PARTRIDGE”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“I needed someone who had lived enough Christian life to help me separate my emotions from the truth in the Bible. Someone who was qualified to apply Scripture to my experience. Someone who had been to the valley and knew the way out. If anyone could guide me forward, it would be him. Each month I spent eight hours at his house. I didn’t know where to begin, but he did. I didn’t know what to say, but he did. I didn’t know how to feel, but he made me feel. We would often role-play, putting me into awkward situations, awakening past trauma, and training me how to react in future situations. Sometimes I would sob uncontrollably after he spoke. It turned out to be a year of healing, and I remember our last meeting as I sat on John’s back porch, thinking, No one my age could have done this for me. John embraced his age. He wore a suit. He wasn’t flashy or flamboyant. He was comfortable in who he was and wasn’t trying to be someone else. And that is what made him a perfect mentor for me during that time. We need more John Townsends in the world, not more counterfeit adults.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“Wisdom says that the fastest path to maturity is within the hardest relationships we have. You can certainly avoid all of these duties; just know that you’re also avoiding the ultimate development—of you.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“CULTURE SAYS: You should fight to achieve freedom and autonomy. WHAT GOD HAS TAUGHT ME: You should fight to find a biblical community with fanatical accountability.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“The second component is accountability. Because the Bible instructs us to “confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed,” we must be willing to confront or be confronted by one another when we exhibit unhealthy patterns. Furthermore, we must be inclined to submit ourselves to the authority of not just our leaders but our peers. You see, our community’s prayer life is directly connected to our shared life. We can only pray for and bear together the burdens we know about. Independence isn’t the path to freedom but to captivity. Autonomy isn’t the way to painlessness but to quiet suffering. If you don’t have accountability, you don’t have community. How many divorces would have been prevented if people were in true community? How many suicides would have been stopped? How many cries for help would have been heard? How many bankruptcies would have been avoided? How many affairs would have been evaded? How many needs would have been met? Now, there’s nothing more stressful than trying to solve a problem that has no solution. So where do you go from here? How can you find biblical community? How can you begin pursuing a life of real Christian relationships? You have two options: you either plant it or find it. You either seek God’s navigation for your life and ask Him to reveal the remnants of counter-cultural, biblical communities that are scattered across the world, or you create it. Now as many of you know, it’s just about impossible to create something you’ve never experienced. That’s why Veronica and I have chosen to devote the rest of our lives to helping people find this. If you’re interested in learning more, consider our nonprofit program at UnlearnChurch.org.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“Community is made up of a couple components. Two are highly unpopular. The first is honesty. Think about the three closest people to you. How far are you willing to let them in? Do they know the state of your marriage, the condition of your obedience to God’s commands, and the darkest struggles of your life? As I mentioned earlier, the Bible instructs us to “bear one another’s burdens.” It doesn’t support culture’s “come this far but no farther” approach to intimacy. So if you don’t have honesty, you don’t have community.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“Christians are powerful when joined with others in biblical community. — DALE PARTRIDGE”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“Christians, however, are powerful when joined with others in biblical community. Not only do we reap the deep waters of affection and devotion, but we are less inclined to morally fall when we are willing to commit, to know, and to be known. In turn, our lives are a threat to the work of our Enemy, and we are protected through wisdom, counsel, and our willingness to be surrounded by friends who offer correction and loving rebuke.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“Refuse to become the most influential person that nobody likes.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life

“Rather than follow your heart, the wisest thing you can do is guide your heart. That’s how you were created. Your heart was not designed to be followed. It was designed to be led—by God’s Word, the Holy Spirit, and your brothers and sisters in Christ.”
― Dale Partridge, Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life