The 40-Day Social Media Fast Quotes

“Things changed when my phone outsmarted me. Once Facebook had a permanent place in my pocket, it became a permanent portal—able to transport me away from my family. Even if we were physically in the same room, I wasn’t necessarily there with them. Facebook was no longer simply a naptime vacation but an all-day form of escapism.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“When I turn to my phone to cope
with stress, I don’t return to my family
more able to handle the stress. When
I sneak away to social media, I don’t
return to my husband and children more socially available. When I put my face in Facebook, rather than the Good Book, I don’t find the help I need when it’s time to face my family again.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“While we might believe prayer works, we don’t have the time to get on our knees because we’re on our phones.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“Opening my phone closes me off to others, but closing my phone opens me up to those around me.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“The ones I love must never take a back seat to those I “like.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“It's possible that the people you follow online have come between you and the One who said, “Follow Me.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“A life spent in fellowship with God isn’t just a good life, it’s the best life—and that best life segues into
a forever life of eternal fellowship. How wonderful! Fast from that which feels good temporarily in order to experience the only One who is good eternally, who holds your best life in the palm of His gracious hand. Is that thing you hold in your hand separating you from the One who holds you in His?
Is social media bad? No, maybe not, but for the next forty days, let’s set it down under the lamplight of Jesus’s words: “Only God is truly good.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“If you habitually look for love and companionship online, when the love of God is found in the companionship of Christ, then social media isn’t good for you. Perhaps you need a short forty-day break to connect with God. Disconnecting from that which is less good frees you up to connect with the One who is most good. With His help, when this fast is over you might be able to set boundaries around your online relationships that allow you to enjoy those good gifts in light of the good Gift-Giver. But if you can’t, then don’t reengage online. All things may be allowed, but if they don’t allow you to stay focused on the satisfying goodness of God, then they aren’t good for you.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“C. S. Lewis once wrote, “There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan.” Our good God wants to use social media for our good and His glory, but Satan is hell-bent on owning that territory and using it for our distracted demise. This is true in everything. God wants us focused; Satan loves us frazzled. God wants us devoted; Satan loves it when we’re distracted. God wants us content; Satan loves us discontent—dissatisfied, depressed, and dejected. God wants us to know His incomparable love, while the devil wants us comparing our lives with others as we search for a di erent sort of love—a love that looks more like “likes.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“Have you bought into the lie that “You are what you tweet”? Spend forty days discovering who God says you are. Your identity is not found in how witty or pithy your 280 characters can be. You are a child of God, made in His likeness. Shut down Twitter and open up your Bible. Spend your time digging into the Word and discover who you are there, based on God’s opinion.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“A social media fast is not about keeping technology in its rightful place. Oh, no! This is about keeping God in His rightful place: at the center of our attention and affection.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“Nothing in my life has made loving God with all my heart, soul, and mind more di cult than my constant connection to my devices. The same is true when it comes to loving my real-life neighbors. Devices are divisive.”
― Wendy Speake, 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“The Word before the world.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“I began to live as if there were not one in the world but Him and me. I adored Him as often as I could, keeping my mind in his holy presence and recalling it as often as it wandered. I had no little difficulty in this exercise, but I kept on despite all the difficulties and was not worried or distressed when I was involuntarily distracted. I did this during the day as often as I did it during the formal time specifically set aside for prayer; for at all times, at every hour, at every moment, even in the busiest times of my work, I banished and put away from my mind everything capable of diverting me from the thought of God.1”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“Make “the Word before the world” your morning mantra.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“This world can be dark and confusing, but darkness is merely the absence of light. Opening the Bible is like turning on floodlights. We have the most powerful torchlight possible sitting right on our bedside tables.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“When the One who called Himself the Light of the World seems most dim, I have to practice the spiritual discipline of opening up His Word.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“When we spend less time congregating at the digital gates and more time congregating as a congregation, our time online holds gospel power.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. John 16:33”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“Missionary and evangelist Reinhold Bonnke once wrote, “The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going.”2”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious. (1 Pet. 3:3–4 ESV)”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“That’s why I ask the Lord to give me just the portion of this world’s beauty that He wants me to have—no more, no less. Then I remind myself that He is focused on my beautiful, devoted heart, not my aging face. Since I am committed to not obsessing about my looks, I try to put more effort into the hidden places of my spirit, where gravity has no power.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“for all the world to see. That’s why I ask the Lord to give me just the portion of this world’s beauty that He wants me to have—no more, no less.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“Here’s a passage for us to pray anytime our motives are getting a little mixed up: “Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my anxious thoughts; and see if there be any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way” (Ps. 139:23–24 NASB).”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“They weren’t looking for disciples of their own; they were looking to make disciples for the Master.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“Lord, I don’t want to be ruled by my compulsions, as though I have no say in what I do. I want to be ruled by You. You are strong, and Your strength in me is greater than any temptation I face. You are the strong Way out of temptation. I’m blazing a trail for future generations to know You as the Master of their days as well, so I am asking for Your help. May Your voice be the only notification my family needs to navigate through this life. Be our internal GPS, Holy Spirit, wherever we’re headed today. Amen.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“Jesus referred to Himself as “the way” (John 14:6). He is the Way to the Father, yes, but He is also the Way out of your addiction to your phone.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“The Bible says, “You are tempted in the same way that everyone else is tempted. But God can be trusted not to let you be tempted too much, and he will show you how to escape from your temptations” (1 Cor. 10:13 CEV).”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“You are not powerless. The Holy Spirit of God in you is stronger than the impulse to pick up your phone hundreds of times each day.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“When Christ is your best, you’ll not strive for better!”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion