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

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

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

— 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

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

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

— Mary E. DeMuth

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

— Mary E. DeMuth

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

— 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

We don’t like death. We’d rather produce seeds another way. But death to ourselves, our agendas, our expectations, our hopes are necessary to find deep joy that comes when we fully relinquish ourselves to the gospel.

— Mary E. DeMuth