Mary Detweiler > Quotes

“Words are powerful. They can hurt or they can heal.”
― Mary Detweiler, When Therapy Isn't Enough: Where Healing Can Be Found

“When you throw a stone into a pond ripples go out from where the stone landed and sometimes it’s hard to pinpoint exactly where the ripples stop. It’s the same way with every choice we make and every action we take or refuse to take. Everything we do or do not do has consequences and those consequences are inescapable. We may escape the consequences in the short run however, in the long run someone will experience those consequences – either you or someone who comes after you. The same holds true for waiting on God. There are consequences to waiting on God and there are consequences to refusing to wait on God.”
― Mary Detweiler, When Doing Isn't Enough

“Though tremendous legislative strides have been made regarding both racial and gender equality, it is sad but true to acknowledge that racism and sexism still exist. They exist because "isms" are not legal conditions, they are heart conditions, and legislation does not change hearts.”
― Mary Detweiler, When Going with the Flow Isn't Enough... Swim Upstream

“Through working a program that continually pointed me toward Jesus, I learned how to access his healing power. My childhood wounds were finally healed-not coped with but healed.”
― Mary Detweiler, When Therapy Isn't Enough: Where Healing Can Be Found

“Waiting is not popular in our modern society. Immediate gratification is popular. We want what we want now, and we do everything possible to get whatever it is we want now and avoid waiting… God, however, appears to like waiting and seems to require it of anyone who will be used by him, particularly those who will be used in a significant way. When studying the lives of individuals in the Bible who have been used by God to accomplish extraordinary tasks there certainly seems to be a correlation between waiting and serving God in the extraordinary ways they were called to serve.”
― Mary Detweiler, When Doing Isn't Enough . . . Waiting Is Plenty

“It is important to understand that someone can be ordained by human beings to do something and not be anointed by God to do that same thing. It is also possible that someone can be anointed by God to do something and not have the approval or blessing of human beings to do that.”
― Mary Detweiler, When Going with the Flow Isn't Enough... Swim Upstream

“Emotional and spiritual wounds can be healed in a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ.”
― Mary Detweiler, When Therapy Isn't Enough: Where Healing Can Be Found

“It is my belief that most, if not all, of the problems for which people seek therapy and/or enter recovery have their roots in toxic shame.”
― Mary Detweiler, When Therapy Isn't Enough: Where Healing Can Be Found