Adorned Quotes

“We can’t separate our home life from our Christian life without missing something that is critical to our fellowship with God and our usefulness to His mission in the world.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together

“There is a time when it’s necessary to lean in, to say the hard things, to not be silent when one of our sisters is teetering toward compromise. This is how we “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” (v. 2). This is how we live out the beauty of the gospel—together.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together

“He who grows in grace remembers that he is but dust, and he therefore does not expect his fellow Christians to be anything more; he overlooks ten thousand of their faults, because he knows his God overlooks twenty thousand in his own case. He does not expect perfection in the creature, and, therefore, he is not disappointed when he does not find it.4”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together

“Our unleashed words can be every bit as damaging and destructive as any other kind of aggressive outburst.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together

“Teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. … so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior. TITUS 2:1–5, 10”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together