Mary E. DeMuth

Quotes

• “My stubborn, self-savvy heart will not reach for the sky if my earth becomes everything I need. If people fill me up the...”
• “Why must we cling to those who walk away instead of granting freedom? We must give the same liberty God gives to prodiga...”
• “A broken person understands she needs rescue, and she depends on God to resurrect and deliver. And she also understands ...”
• “We don’t like death. We’d rather produce seeds another way. But death to ourselves, our agendas, our expectations, our h...”
• “Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame...”
• “We enslave in the manner we talk to ourselves. But the truth is, God already set us free. He secured our release. To con...”
• “Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. ...”
• “When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from ...”
• “We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure...”
• “Money is a cheap but powerful substitute for Jesus, and wielding money is intoxicating, but it won't usher in the kingdo...”
• “The Gospel isn’t a life management program. It shouldn’t merely be the crutch we fall on when life gets ugly. It should ...”
• “To abandon all is to take our hearts, place them before the One who created them, and dare to believe He can live life p...”
• “Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face o...”
• “It’s never easy letting go. But if we don’t learn the art of relinquishment, we’ll never move forward to embrace the new...”
• “I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done...”
• “Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has l...”
• “It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing th...”
• “As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the...”
• “I wear the word victim like a badge of honor — my own purple heart. I see what others do more than I see what I'm capabl...”
• “Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.”
• “The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.”
• “Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.”
• “Pain can either thrust me into the arms of Jesus or make me turn my back on Him. Either way, it's a choice.”
• “We’d avoid a lot of insecurity, if we fully, wholly believed in God’s wild affection for us.”
• “We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness.”
• “God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.”
• “We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.”
• “When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and breaks her.”
• “When Jesus isn’t our everything, our enough, we pursue every other thing that fills.”
• “Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly.”
• “Control is the inner disease of those who need stability and order to function.”
• “I realized that what I feared the most had materialized, yet I survived.”
• “The more we love, the more it hurts, and the more we have to let go.”
• “Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.”
• “Growth comes in the aftermath of failure, not wild success.”
• “He created us for adventure, not ease.”