Mom Enough Quotes

“It is easy to think you have a heart for orphans on the other side of the world, but to resent the demands of the children in your living room. You cannot have a heart for the gospel and fussiness about your life at the same time.”
― Rachel Jankovic, Mom Enough: The Fearless Mother's Heart and Hope

“When we look back at God’s past faithfulness to us, it gives us confidence and hope in his future faithfulness.”
― Tony Reinke, Mom Enough: The Fearless Mother's Heart and Hope

“Through Christ, God offers us grace in our mothering. He takes our meager efforts and produces spiritual fruit in us and in our children. He is enough.”
― Tony Reinke, Mom Enough: The Fearless Mother's Heart and Hope

“The nearness of God is our good. And the trials we endure in this fallen world awaken us to this truth.”
― Tony Reinke, Mom Enough: The Fearless Mother's Heart and Hope

“We tend to forget about tomorrow and eternity when our days are filled with the tyranny of the urgent.”
― Tony Reinke, Mom Enough: The Fearless Mother's Heart and Hope

“Live the gospel in the things that no one sees. Sacrifice for your children in places that only they will know. Put their value ahead of yours. Grow them up in the clean air of gospel living.”
― Tony Reinke, Mom Enough: The Fearless Mother's Heart and Hope

“By God’s grace, I can resist the temptation to treat my children as interruptions to my will for my life. Instead, God enables me to treat my children as precious gifts he is using to shape me into his image according to his will for my life.”
― Tony Reinke, Mom Enough: The Fearless Mother's Heart and Hope

“A busy mother’s day produces millions of transformations. Dirty children become clean, hungry children fed, tired children rested. Almost every task a mother performs in the course of a normal day can be considered a transformation. Dirty clothes to clean, unhappy children to peaceful, empty fridge to full. Every day we fight against disorder, filth, starvation, and lawlessness, and some days we almost succeed.”
― Tony Reinke, Mom Enough: The Fearless Mother's Heart and Hope

“Look at your children in faith, and see how many people will be ministered to by your ministering to them.”
― Desiring God, Mom Enough: The Fearless Mother's Heart and Hope

“It’s easy to let our perspective get buried in an avalanche of cotton blends at Mount Laundry. Even so, we must make an effort to remember that our job is more than feeding, bathing, clothing, and educating our children. Our job is remembering eternity.”
― Tony Reinke, Mom Enough: The Fearless Mother's Heart and Hope

“You have everything you need to spiritually nourish your children, because you have Christ.”
― Tony Reinke, Mom Enough: The Fearless Mother's Heart and Hope

“Mothers need to study their own roles, and begin to see them, not as boring and inconsequential, but as home, the headwaters of missions.”
― Tony Reinke, Mom Enough: The Fearless Mother's Heart and Hope

“motherhood isn’t a task to be checked off like laundry. It is a calling.”
― Tony Reinke, Mom Enough: The Fearless Mother's Heart and Hope

“God always has been, and always will be, God enough. The battle is over, whether or not I believe it, and whether or not I delight in God’s enough-ness.”
― Tony Reinke, Mom Enough: The Fearless Mother's Heart and Hope

“Recognize the cost is your life, and willingly lay yourself down. The world hates the smell of that sacrifice, because it is the smell of grace. They hate it because it is the smell of something living and burning at the same time—something that is impossible without a risen Savior.”
― Tony Reinke, Mom Enough: The Fearless Mother's Heart and Hope

“we are tempted to terror and anxiety, until we cling in dependency on the promises of God.”
― Tony Reinke, Mom Enough: The Fearless Mother's Heart and Hope