Quotes by Mary E. DeMuth

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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.

Mary E. DeMuth

He created us for adventure, not ease.

Mary E. DeMuth

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.

Mary E. DeMuth

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.

Mary E. DeMuth

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.

Mary E. DeMuth

To abandon all is to take our hearts, place them before the One who created them, and dare to believe He can live life powerfully through our surrendered lives.

Mary E. DeMuth

Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly.

Mary E. DeMuth

A broken person understands she needs rescue, and she depends on God to resurrect and deliver. And she also understands that even if God chooses not to deliver, His ways are higher and more amazing then what we can fathom.

Mary E. DeMuth

When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and breaks her.

Mary E. DeMuth

Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.

Mary E. DeMuth

The more we love, the more it hurts, and the more we have to let go.

Mary E. DeMuth

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

Mary E. DeMuth

As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.

Mary E. DeMuth

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness.

Mary E. DeMuth

Control is the inner disease of those who need stability and order to function.

Mary E. DeMuth

To become more like Jesus we must understand that the only growth we can be in charge of is our own.

Mary E. DeMuth

Because 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.

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The Gospel isn’t a life management program. It shouldn’t merely be the crutch we fall on when life gets ugly. It should be the legs we walk on, the air we breathe.

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God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.

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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.

Mary E. DeMuth

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.

Mary E. DeMuth