Having a Mary Spirit Quotes

“Bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
― Joanna Weaver, Having a Mary Spirit: Allowing God to Change Us from the Inside Out

“I believe the ability to love people as we should only comes from the security of knowing we ourselves are loved. For you cannot share what you do not have. Which is another reason we need the Holy Spirit—for He bears witness with our hearts that we are God’s children, and dearly loved as well (Romans 8:15–16, 1 John 3:1).”
― Joanna Weaver, Having a Mary Spirit: Allowing God to Change Us from the Inside Out

“Statistics reveal that much of the Body of Christ in our culture prefers self-gratification over true transformation. Comfort over character. Ignorance over belief.”
― Joanna Weaver, Having a Mary Spirit: Allowing God to Change Us from the Inside Out

“We grow like what we look at, and if we spend our lives looking at our hateful selves, we shall become more and more hateful. Do we not find as a fact that self-examination, instead of making us better, always seems to make us worse?”
― Joanna Weaver, Having a Mary Spirit: Allowing God to Change Us from the Inside Out

“To think that Christ gave us so much only to have us experience so little brings tears to my eyes.”
― Joanna Weaver, Having a Mary Spirit: Allowing God to Change Us from the Inside Out

“If Satan can’t make me fall away from God’s grace, he will do everything he can to keep me from fully embracing God’s grace. Satan wants me—and he wants you!—to be so constantly preoccupied with what we’re not that we never get around to realizing all that God is.”
― Joanna Weaver, Having a Mary Spirit: Allowing God to Change Us from the Inside Out