Mary E. DeMuth quote: "Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth."

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simpl...
MARY E. DEMUTH

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in...
MARY E. DEMUTH

Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.
MARY E. DEMUTH

We’d avoid a lot of insecurity, if we fully, wholly believed in God’s wild affection for us.
MARY E. DEMUTH

As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, comm...
MARY E. DEMUTH

Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures whe...
MARY E. DEMUTH

When Jesus isn’t our everything, our enough, we pursue every other thing that fills.
MARY E. DEMUTH

Why must we cling to those who walk away instead of granting freedom? We must give the same liberty ...
MARY E. DEMUTH

Money is a cheap but powerful substitute for Jesus, and wielding money is intoxicating, but it won't...
MARY E. DEMUTH

I realized that what I feared the most had materialized, yet I survived.
MARY E. DEMUTH

To become more like Jesus we must understand that the only growth we can be in charge of is our own.
MARY E. DEMUTH

Growth comes in the aftermath of failure, not wild success.
MARY E. DEMUTH

Nothing significant in the kingdom of God happens unless death occurs.
MARY E. DEMUTH

When we think of other people as our center and fulfillment, we live frustrated lives.
MARY E. DEMUTH

When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and breaks her.
MARY E. DEMUTH

Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from a...
MARY E. DEMUTH

We don’t like death. We’d rather produce seeds another way. But death to ourselves, our agendas,...
MARY E. DEMUTH

Control is the inner disease of those who need stability and order to function.
MARY E. DEMUTH

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simpl...
MARY E. DEMUTH

God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.
MARY E. DEMUTH

It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their bea...
MARY E. DEMUTH

The Gospel isn’t a life management program. It shouldn’t merely be the crutch we fall on when li...
MARY E. DEMUTH

We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey....
MARY E. DEMUTH

Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly.
MARY E. DEMUTH

He created us for adventure, not ease.
MARY E. DEMUTH

The more we love, the more it hurts, and the more we have to let go.
MARY E. DEMUTH

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness.
MARY E. DEMUTH

A broken person understands she needs rescue, and she depends on God to resurrect and deliver. And s...
MARY E. DEMUTH

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.
MARY E. DEMUTH

We left runners on base in a few innings, but we kept it close in every game. It was great to play a...
BECKY DEMUTH

We've been struggling a little on offense and she just stepped up and hit the ball well against the ...
BECKY DEMUTH

We wish we were off to a better start, but we're playing better teams. We hope we can do what we did...
BECKY DEMUTH

We won't play like we need to win (to make the NCAA tourney). We'll try to play with heart. We'll le...
JENNY DEMUTH

Through the past few games, this team has definitely come together. When I was a freshman, that's wh...
JENNY DEMUTH

We've proven we can play in front of big crowds, and we're going to have to do that in our next thre...
JENNY DEMUTH

Our ball pressure on their guards was amazing, and our post play was tremendous. Overall, we just pl...
JENNY DEMUTH

We changed up our defense more, our ball pressure on the guards was amazing. I think all around, we ...
JENNY DEMUTH

I think we were just going in and executing our game plan, we're going to leave it on the floor. I d...
JENNY DEMUTH

I think if we come out with the energy and emotion we had today, we can compete.
JENNY DEMUTH

What we think is ethical today, we may not have thought ethical five or 10 years ago. Cloning, stem ...
MARY E. PEARSON

Something made of nothing, tasting very sweet, A most delicious compound, with ingredients complet...
MARY E. BUELL

Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they...
MARY E. PEARSON

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.
MARY E. PEARSON

Of course you did." I took a step closer. "You have strengths, Tavish, that I greatly admire. You're...
MARY E. PEARSON

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.
MARY E. PEARSON

I walked up to Griz and poked him in the chest. "Let me make this perfectly clear to you. Though som...
MARY E. PEARSON

I will find you.
In the farthest corner, I will find you.
MARY E. PEARSON

The information. Every bit that of information that was ever in your brain. But the information is n...
MARY E. PEARSON

Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in...
MARY E. PEARSON

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)
MARY E. PEARSON

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.
MARY E. PEARSON

When I first began writing, and I told people what I wrote, I'd get a blank stare and sometimes ...
MARY E. PEARSON

As we got older, their mischiefs continued to be shrugged off, but mine were not, and I knew from th...
MARY E. PEARSON

Observing and understanding are two different things.
MARY E. PEARSON

Who was this girl who thumbed her nose at two kingdoms and did as she pleased?
MARY E. PEARSON

Fifty years in the future, I should hope we'll be on our second woman president, at least.
MARY E. PEARSON

Love … It’s a nice little trick if you can find it.

We had found it.

But n...
MARY E. PEARSON

If one can't be trusted in love, one can't be trusted in anything. Some things can't be forgiven.
MARY E. PEARSON

I felt something wet trickle down the side of my face. I reached up and swiped the salty wetness awa...
MARY E. PEARSON

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small,...
MARY E. PEARSON

Don't be afraid, child,
The stories are always there.
MARY E. PEARSON

We take too much of our heritage for granted. Harriman State Park is not Mt. Vernon. Nor is it Yosem...
MARY E. REED

Do we allow unlimited visitation, or do we restrict numbers to protect a delicate ecosystem? Do we h...
MARY E. REED

Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your hear...
MARY E. PEARSON

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.
MARY E. PEARSON

The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels lik...
MARY E. PEARSON

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS

Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS

who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS

The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS

and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS

next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS

he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS

and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
Thats not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be d...
H. E. E. HAYES

Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.
MARY BERRY

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
MARY GARDEN

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
MARY GARDEN

I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.
MARY GARDEN

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don'...
MARY GARDEN

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, draw...
MARY GARDEN

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of ...
MARY GARDEN

In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always st...
MARY GARDEN

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence...
MARY GARDEN

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I cou...
MARY GARDEN

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
MARY GARDEN

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was con...
MARY GARDEN

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything...
MARY GARDEN

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
MARY GARDEN

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was thei...
MARY GARDEN

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse...
MARY GARDEN

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
MARY SHELLEY

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any...
MARY ASTELL

I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished ...
MARY QUANT

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
MARY MARTIN

When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, a...
MARY KARR

Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I ...
MARY HASKELL

There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokera...
MARY SCHAPIRO

When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bow...
MARY QUANT

I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of differe...
MARY DALY

Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria...
MARY BERRY

I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn&#...
MARY BERRY

I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes...
MARY BERRY

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary natu...
MARY WEBB

In my end is my beginning.
MARY STUART

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
MARY SCHMICH

'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'
MARY SCHMICH

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
MARY SCHMICH

TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no...
MARY SCHMICH

The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
MARY SCHMICH

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
MARY SCHMICH

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
MARY SCHMICH

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w...
MARY SCHMICH

In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp n...
MARY SCHMICH

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
MARY SCHMICH

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and...
MARY SCHMICH

On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's p...
MARY SCHMICH

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew...
MARY SCHMICH

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll ha...
MARY SCHMICH

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, ...
MARY SCHMICH

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air...
MARY SCHMICH

Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye...
MARY BERRY

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
MARY CHENEY

One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ...
MARY BARRA

I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O...
MARY BERRY

When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that...
MARY BARRA

If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.
MARY BERRY

I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan...
MARY BERRY

Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J...
MARY BUCKLEY

The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we...
MARY MCDOWELL

Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTY

Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.

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Mary E. DeMuth

Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.

Mary E. DeMuth

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