Everything Quotes

“We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.”
― Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“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, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness.”
― Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“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, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“The more we love, the more it hurts, and the more we have to let go.”
― Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He’ll do more than we expect.”
― Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly.”
― Mary DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“He created us for adventure, not ease.”
― Mary DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.”
― Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“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, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“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, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“Control is the inner disease of those who need stability and order to function.”
― Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“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, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“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, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.”
― Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word.”
― Mary DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“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, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“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, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“Growth comes in the aftermath of failure, not wild success.”
― Mary DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.”
― Mary DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“When we think of other people as our center and fulfillment, we live frustrated lives.”
― Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present.”
― Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and breaks her.”
― Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“Nothing significant in the kingdom of God happens unless death occurs.”
― Mary DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“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, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“I realized that what I feared the most had materialized, yet I survived.”
― Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“To become more like Jesus we must understand that the only growth we can be in charge of is our own.”
― Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“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, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“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, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“When Jesus isn’t our everything, our enough, we pursue every other thing that fills.”
― Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus