Here is another quote from a different book (the last one was the one he wrote for students at Calvin College where he was president and it was called "Engaging God's World. This one is from his famous "Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin".)
"All idolatry is not only treacherous but also futile. [Idolatry is best described as anything our "heart clings to" whether its fame, success, happiness or whatever]. Human desire, deep and restless and seemingly unfulfillable, keeps stuffing itself with finite goods, but these cannot satisfy. If we try to fill our hearts with anything besides the God of the universe, we find that we are overfed and undernourished, and we find that day by day, week by week, year after year, we are thinning down to a mere outline of a human being."
Jason's mind: "Well, that's something to think about, Jabez." [my new nickname for my heart]
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