“ This same Jesus, though, didn't say we had to be in relationship with everyone. We are not to 'throw [our] pearls to pigs.' (See Matthew 7:6.) He didn't deeply entrust his heart to Pharisees. You see… Mary E. DeMuth
“ 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
“ We’d avoid a lot of insecurity, if we fully, wholly believed in God’s wild affection for us. 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. Mary E. DeMuth
“ 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… Mary E. DeMuth
“ We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them. Mary E. DeMuth
“ When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and breaks her. Mary E. DeMuth
“ We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves. Mary E. DeMuth
“ 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) Mary E. DeMuth
“ 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 capable of. Mary E. DeMuth
“ 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 hap… Mary E. DeMuth
“ God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it. Mary E. DeMuth
“ 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. 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 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. 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
“ Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds. Mary E. DeMuth
