{"quotes":[{"text":"Compassion is the most powerful tool you can have when it comes to healing addictions of any kind. Put simply, what your partner needs most from you is compassion.","author":"Christopher Kennedy Lawford","tags":["addict","addiction","compassion","healing","recovery"],"id":2191,"author_id":"Christopher+Kennedy+Lawford"},{"text":"The lack of culpability of the perpetrator and his or her transference of blame onto alcohol or other substances only perpetuates the violent behaviors.","author":"Asa Don Brown","tags":["addict","addiction","addictive-behavior","alcohol","asa-don-brown","domestic-violence","drugs","substances","the-sober-world-magazine"],"id":3387,"author_id":"Asa+Don+Brown"},{"text":"Some, they didn't make it.The temptation just too strong.How can darkness cloud the mindTo what I know as wrong?","author":"Kimberly Nalen","tags":["addict","addiction","drug-addiction","drugs","poetry"],"id":4169,"author_id":"Kimberly+Nalen"},{"text":"Remember what I used to tel you when you were a little girl? ‘A fool and her money soon part.’ Current-day translation? Stop pissing away your assets at Bloomingdale’s.","author":"Sophie Kinsella","tags":["addict","addiction","bloomingdales","confession","money","shop","shopaholic","shopping"],"id":12416,"author_id":"Sophie+Kinsella"},{"text":"...Most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.","author":"David Foster Wallace","tags":["addict","addiction","drugs","thinking"],"id":32423,"author_id":"David+Foster+Wallace"},{"text":"As sinners we are like addicts - addicted to ourselves and our own projects. The theology of glory simply seeks to give those projects eternal legitimacy. The remedy for the theology of glory, therefore, cannot be encouragement and positive thinking, but rather the end of the addictive desire. Luther says it directly: 'The remedy for curing desire does not lie in satisfying it, but in extinguishing it.' So we are back to the cross, the radical intervention, end of the life of the old and the beginning of the new. Since the theology of glory is like addiction and not abstract doctrine, it is a temptation over which we have no control in and of ourselves, and from which we must be saved. As with the addict, mere exhortation and optimistic encouragement will do no good. It may be intended to build up character and self-esteem, but when the addict realizes the impossibility of quitting, self-esteem degenerates all the more. The alcoholic will only take to drinking in secret, trying to put on the facade of sobriety. As theologians of glory we do much the same. We put on a facade of religious propriety and piety and try to hide or explain away or coddle our sins.... As with the addict there has to be an intervention, an act from without. In treatment of alcoholics some would speak of the necessity of 'bottoming out,' reaching the absolute bottom where one can no longer escape the need for help. Then it is finally evident that the desire can never be satisfied, but must be extinguished. In matters of faith, the preaching of the cross is analogous to that intervention. It is an act of God, entirely from without. It does not come to feed the religious desires of the Old Adam and Eve but to extinguish them. They are crucified with Christ to be made new.","author":"Gerhard O. Forde","tags":["addict","cross","glory","gospel","piety","sinner","theology"],"id":42755,"author_id":"Gerhard+O.+Forde"},{"text":"Changing a Habit is Never Difficult.Difficult is to Address Your Unwillingness to do it.","author":"Vineet Raj Kapoor","tags":["addict","addiction","breaking-habit","change","change-habit","convert","difficulty","evolution","evolve","habit","inspire","lifestyle","motivate","motivational","overcome","unwillingness","willingness"],"id":59399,"author_id":"Vineet+Raj+Kapoor"},{"text":"It's too cold outside for angels to fly.","author":"Ed Sheeran","tags":["a","addict","angels","cold","drug","ed","outside","sheeran","team"],"id":84153,"author_id":"Ed+Sheeran"},{"text":"No one wants to be entrapped by his or her addictive habit...","author":"Asa Don Brown","tags":["addict","addiction","addictive","dr-asa-don-brown","the-sober-world-magazine"],"id":93725,"author_id":"Asa+Don+Brown"},{"text":"It is not a coincidence that you and your partner are together. You each have something to learn from one another …. The most important thing you can do to support your partner in his [or her] recovery is to show that you are truly supportive and on his [or her] side.","author":"Christopher Kennedy Lawford","tags":["addict","addiction","compassion","recovery","support"],"id":105933,"author_id":"Christopher+Kennedy+Lawford"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}