Mary E. DeMuth Quotes
Mary E. DeMuth Quotes
It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.
2540Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.
2259 Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.
2104 We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.
2527 I realized that what I feared the most had materialized, yet I survived.
2045 Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.
3025 When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.
4471 Pain can either thrust me into the arms of Jesus or make me turn my back on Him. Either way, it's a choice.
3093 Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out for them. (p. 56)
2482 We enslave in the manner we talk to ourselves. But the truth is, God already set us free. He secured our release. To constantly hurt ourselves, resting in our inadequacy, is to call Him a LIAR.
2212 Why must we cling to those who walk away instead of granting freedom? We must give the same liberty God gives to prodigals-an ability to let them go-or we'll be perennially bound to others for our happiness and effective service.
1451 The more we love, the more it hurts, and the more we have to let go.
2048 My stubborn, self-savvy heart will not reach for the sky if my earth becomes everything I need. If people fill me up then where is my need for the transcendent? If everything is glory and beauty and sweetness and light, will I be the type of soul that reaches to Jesus?
3626 The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.
2756 Money is a cheap but powerful substitute for Jesus, and wielding money is intoxicating, but it won't usher in the kingdom of God, nor will it ensure eternal treasures.
3778 Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly.
1089 We don’t like death. We’d rather produce seeds another way. But death to ourselves, our agendas, our expectations, our hopes is necessary to find deep joy that comes when we fully relinquish ourselves to the gospel.
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