Having A Mary Heart In A Martha World: Finding Intimacy With God In The Busyness Of Life Quotes
"Being a woman requires more stamina, more creativity, and more wisdom than I ever dreamed as a young girl."
"Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World. The thought intrigues you."
"Nurturing your spiritual life seems like one more duty—one more thing to add to a life that is spilling over with responsibilities."
"It’s almost as if you’re standing on the bottom rung of a ladder that stretches up to heaven."
"There is more to this Christian walk than you’ve experienced. And you’re just hungry enough—just desperate enough—to want it all."
"What a woman! She opens her home to a band of thirteen hungry men, possibly more."
"The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone."
"In the Living Room. That’s where it all begins. Down at his feet."
"The good news is Woven through the New Testament in a grace-filled strand that shines especially bright in the Gospel stories of Mary and Martha."
"Still, it felt good to help a friend. Surely God would be proud of how energetic and helpful he’d been."
"Nothing is harder to bear than a burden we’re not called to carry."
"My yoke is easy, and my burden is light. I will never ask you to carry more than I will give you the strength to bear."
"We don’t need millions of lifetimes in order to be pure enough to see God."
"The price has been paid. Please hear this simple truth."
"You are a letter from Christ… written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God."
"If you really love one another, you will not be able to avoid making sacrifices."
"We were set apart for a purpose—to communicate his glory to a lost and dying world."
"The world is still embroiled in strife, still wasting away from physical and spiritual emptiness, still hurting and dying."
"If we, not God, end up being their source of hope, we are setting them up for profound disappointment."
"Only God, you see, can make rag dolls whole."
"Our job is just to be his rag-doll emissaries, formed in his likeness."
"Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have words said of us like those Acts 4:13 records?"
"The cause of Christ is alive and well in China because of Christians who dared to love."
"Instead of fighting the government, Chinese Christians devoted themselves to worship and evangelism."
"One life truly can make a difference. Your life plus my life makes two."
"I don’t know about you, but I want Jesus to be so evident in my life that people don’t just consider me a nice moral person."
"The Better Part is not out there somewhere. It is inside us, where Christ dwells by his Holy Spirit."
"The truth of the matter is this: The rougher the day, the more time I need to spend with my Savior."
"God gave us the Sabbath because He loves us."
"The secret to happiness lies not in getting what you want, but in wanting what you have."
"Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead."
"Receive visitors as you would receive Christ."
"Our lives will capsize if what lies below the spiritual water line of our lives doesn’t outweigh what lies above."
"We were created for abundant fullness, not for negative, ingrown inactivity."
"Love the Lord your God… and love your neighbor as yourself."
"The holy is here within us, waiting to pour out of us."
"Christianity is a process and not an event. It is a journey, not a destination."
"I had spent most of my thirty-seven years waiting to arrive. To be perfected."
"What God started on the day I surrendered my life to him, he will complete as I continually remain surrendered."
"The Lord is my pace setter… I shall not rush."
"Perseverance isn’t a lot of fun. Yet it is perseverance that allows God to take our muddled messes and turn them into miracles."
"When we all pull together, together, together, when we all pull together how happy we’ll be."
"I want to grow through the greatness of my tasks, but I shall need your help for the growing."
"Give yourself fully to God, He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your own weakness."