Mary Demuth Quotes

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 relationships God has for us. — Mary E. DeMuth

When we think of other people as our center and fulfillment, we live frustrated lives. — 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

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

When Jesus isn't our everything, our enough, we pursue every other thing that fills. — Mary E. DeMuth

He created us for adventure, not ease. — Mary E. DeMuth

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

Control is the inner disease of those who need stability and order to function. — Mary E. DeMuth

We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them. — Mary E. DeMuth

The more we love, the more it hurts, and the more we have to let go. — Mary E. DeMuth

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

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

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

Pain can either thrust me into the arms of Jesus or make me turn my back on Him. Either way, it's a choice. — Mary E. DeMuth

The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is. — 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

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

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. — Mary E. DeMuth

I'm just a broken girl who's learned I can't walk the crooked path of this life. — Mary E. DeMuth

Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts. — Mary E. DeMuth

Nothing significant in the kingdom of God happens unless death occurs. — Mary E. DeMuth

Growth comes in the aftermath of failure, not wild success. — Mary E. DeMuth

With an all-or-nothing mind-set, you tend to judge yourself relentlessly ... Eeyore becomes your best friend. — Mary E. DeMuth

I realized that what I feared the most had materialized, yet I survived. — Mary E. DeMuth

I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others. — Mary E. DeMuth

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