Thin Places Quotes

“My stubborn, self-savvy heart will not reach for the sky if my earth becomes everything I need. If people fill me up then where is my need for the transcendent? If everything is glory and beauty and sweetness and light, will I be the type of soul that reaches to Jesus?”
― Mary E. DeMuth, Thin Places

“I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.”
― Mary E. DeMuth, Thin Places

“Look how He’s dusted me off and set me on my feet two hundred and fifty bazillion times. I’m fanatically in love with Him. So if this is true, I need to shed my need-for-everyone-to-like-me coat in favor of His robe of redemption, His mantle of humble submission.”
― Mary E. DeMuth, Thin Places: A Memoir

“I wear the word victim like a badge of honor — my own purple heart. I see what others do more than I see what I'm capable of.”
― Mary E. DeMuth, Thin Places

“For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need” (4:15–16 NASB).”
― Mary E. DeMuth, Thin Places: A Memoir

“But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all Your works. Psalm 73:21–28 NASB”
― Mary E. DeMuth, Thin Places: A Memoir

“Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.’ So the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day” (Joshua 5:9 NASB).”
― Mary E. DeMuth, Thin Places: A Memoir