Free of Me Quotes

“A critical spirit is an easy entry point for sin to sow seeds of division.”
― Sharon Hodde Miller, Free of Me: Why Life Is Better When It's Not about You

“The purpose of family is to love God and others. The purpose of marriage is to love God and others. The purpose of parenting is to love God and others. That’s the answer to the question.”
― Sharon Hodde Miller, Free of Me: Why Life Is Better When It's Not about You

“Loving Father, my focus is fickle. It drifts away from you again and again, no matter how hard I try. I want to live for you, and I want to keep my eyes on you, but I cannot do it without you. I ask for your mercy and your grace. I ask for your Holy Spirit to stand in the gaps. Help me to fix my eyes on you, and thank you for your promise to do it. Amen.”
― Sharon Hodde Miller, Free of Me: Why Life Is Better When It's Not about You

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” Jesus, the bread of life, invites us to embody his generosity. What we have is not ours but belongs to a much bigger story.”
― Sharon Hodde Miller, Free of Me: Why Life Is Better When It's Not about You

“One of the best ways to face this problem of self-centeredness is to discover some cause and some purpose, some loyalty outside of yourself and give yourself to that something.1 —Martin Luther King Jr.”
― Sharon Hodde Miller, Free of Me: Why Life Is Better When It's Not about You

“But I believe the antidote to consumerism in the church is the same antidote to consumerism in marriage. We commit to both for the long haul, not because they ultimately make us happy, but because they make us holy.”
― Sharon Hodde Miller, Free of Me: Why Life Is Better When It's Not about You