Live Your Truth and Other Lies Quotes

“the definition of truth is actually quite simple: Truth is a thought, statement, or opinion that lines up with reality. That’s it. If what we say, think, or believe lines up with reality, it’s truth. If it doesn’t, it’s not.”
― Alisa Childers, Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed

“And as I tell my daughter, “Plant your feet in the Word of God because culture is always changing. Culture gonna cult.”
― Alisa Childers, Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed

“It is written,” he was also appealing to the inspiration of Scripture: “It is . . . clear that Jesus understood ‘It is written’ to be equivalent to ‘God says’.”[8]”
― Alisa Childers, Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed

“Please do not take life advice from someone who is in the middle of a major crisis. Unless they are gleaning from time-tested, biblical wisdom and pointing you to Christ (not yourself), it would be wise to hit the pause button on that hot mess and just wait and see how it all pans out over the next ten years or so.”
― Alisa Childers, Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed

“Telling someone they shouldn’t judge is not biblical. In fact, Scripture actually commands us to judge but to do it carefully, rightly, humbly, and without hypocrisy. And the whole point of judging one another is to protect the church and restore the sinner in repentance.”
― Alisa Childers, Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed

“Looking back, am I thankful that my bandmate “judged” me? That she dared confront me about the self-harm I was guilty of? Absolutely! She was the catalyst that first brought the darkness into the light.”
― Alisa Childers, Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed

“The self can’t be both the problem and the solution.”
― Alisa Childers, Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed

“The devil’s formula has never changed. HOW TO BE DECEIVED IN 5 EASY STEPS Question what God actually said. Twist what God said. Paint God like the mean bully in the sky who uses fear tactics to keep you from having any fun. Persuade you to trust yourself more than you trust God and his Word. Catapult your life into darkness and chaos. Convince you that darkness and chaos are actually good things. Rinse, recycle, repeat. It’s literally the oldest lie in the book.”
― Alisa Childers, Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed

“Far from condoning sin, his love has found a way to expose it (because he is light) and to consume it (because he is fire) without destroying the sinner, but rather saving him.”[6] This is how we know he loves us.”
― Alisa Childers, Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed

“Because true biblical love doesn’t keep score. It doesn’t expect rewards in return. It tells the truth. It believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. It never fails. Love is a Person. Love is willing to suffer. Love eternally gave of himself to others.”
― Alisa Childers, Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed

“If Jesus believed they were the inspired, unbreakable, imperishable, unchangeable, inerrant, and historically reliable word of God, shouldn’t we?”
― Alisa Childers, Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed

“Jesus continually referred to the Old Testament Scriptures as the Word of God. Considering that Jesus is God, doesn’t it make sense that he would expect his followers to take his own Word seriously? Jesus also indicated that the books of the Old Testament were inspired by God.”
― Alisa Childers, Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed

“In fact, Scripture actually commands us to judge but to do it carefully, rightly, humbly, and without hypocrisy. And the whole point of judging one another is to protect the church and restore the sinner in repentance. It’s not so that we can go around pointing our fingers at fellow believers in a spirit of pride.”
― Alisa Childers, Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed

“Truth is true for all people in all places and times.”
― Alisa Childers, Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed

“However, instead of a tower to heaven, we have created an online society and mass media distribution system that’s proliferating sexual immorality, self-worship, discord, and misinformation, with armchair prophets teaching every sort of falsehood.”
― Alisa Childers, Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed

“And still our language is confused. We talk past each other, define words differently, value knowledge and meaning in different ways, shun logic, and celebrate all viewpoints as equally valid (except traditional Christian ones).”
― Alisa Childers, Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed

“purposefully hijacking words, changing their definitions, and then using those same words as tools of propaganda.”
― Alisa Childers, Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed

“Too much of contemporary Christianity is borrowed from the philosophies of the world and even other religions—phrases and mottos that on the surface look great but are not rooted in Scripture or that mostly bolster one’s self-image.”[”
― Alisa Childers, Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed