Sarah Mae > Quotes

“I can use the house to create a home. I can offer my family, my friends, myself, and even strangers the gift of love by making them feel special when they are in my home.”
― Sarah Mae, 31 Days to Clean - Having a Martha House the Mary Way

“We can’t get away with anything with children. They are keen and attentive, and they will eventually grow up to tell the story of their home.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“Each morning set out to accomplish a goal with your kiddos and at the end of the day the reward is knowing your babes were invested in and well-loved and nurtured. Could that be reward enough?”
― Sarah Mae, The UnWired Mom - Choosing to Live Free in an Internet Addicted World

“I have found that trying to follow the voices of culture almost always leads to peer pressure, and unbridled peer pressure leads to peer dependence. Inevitably, those who succumb to it all too easily to give up for lack of guidance and support, being tossed to and fro in the sea of others’ opinions for our lives.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“We can approach the throne of grace with confidence; can your children approach you with confidence, knowing they will be loved no matter what?”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“The ability to last in motherhood requires giving up expectations for our own lives, deciding that sacrificing our desires and wants for the sake of our family is our gift of worship to our heavenly Father. To”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“My kids don’t need to see a supermama. They need to see a mama who needs a Super God.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“In this culture of quick satisfaction and gratification, many of us have never been taught to believe that someday we will have to give an account to God, face-to-face, for the spiritual, emotional, and moral work that we steward in the lives of our children. The souls of our children will last for all eternity, and if we believe Scripture to be true, the way we shepherd them will undoubtedly have repercussions far beyond our lives here on earth.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“The worry of what others are doing or are expecting us to do will indeed kill our souls. Even worse, it separates us from God’s voice, the only voice that truly matters.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“That maybe it all comes down to this: if I make God first and am most satisfied in His love, I’m released to love my children fully and most satisfactorily.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“Each day I say, “God, you have access to my children’s hearts, souls, and minds. Please, through your Holy Spirit, make the life of Christ real to each of them. Lord, help them to have a desire to obey and to learn selfcontrol. Please show me how to be the mom you created me to be.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“God calls each of us to seek Him, to look for His wisdom and to follow where He calls us by faith, and it will be a different story for each family, marriage, and individual mom or dad.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“Going at it alone is, without a doubt, one of the most common and effective strategies that Satan uses to discourage moms. A woman alone in her home with her ideals eventually wears down and becomes a perfect target for Satan to discourage.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“Do we allow our children to approach us with confidence, knowing we will receive them in a spirit of grace?”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“He must have intended something beautiful in creating a woman with this ability to give life, nurture with love, and cultivate the soul of a precious human being entrusted into her hands.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“ECCLESIASTES 4 : 9–12: “Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up. Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone? And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart.” Friendship has always been a strength of women, and yet we live in a very isolationist culture. What are the consequences when a woman does not have a companion to help her?”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“And remember, a wise woman is one who copies wise women.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“Recognize that God has never required more of you than you can possibly accomplish. So if you feel overwhelmed, it can often be because you are living by someone else’s expectations.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“I have come to see that a happy mom is a real gift to her children. A good attitude about work makes her children feel that she is glad that she is a mom and that she is thankful for her children.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“One of the marks of a godly woman is that she takes responsibility for her soul’s need for joy and delight.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“You see, God wants you to be alive and share in that life with your children. He wants to help you develop a foundation of joy, imagination, and beauty in the lives you share together. Experiences like those described above, as with any other part of life, don’t just happen. You must have a plan. What kind of home do you want to live in? How can you craft a home and a schedule that is interesting for you and your children? In taking responsibility for being a conductor of the music of your and your family’s life, you will find joy and fulfillment, and, as I did with my sweet kids, eventually find that you have developed your own best friends out of your own children, who have learned to love what you love.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“You are exactly the mom your children need. He created you for these good works from before the foundation of the world, and as you walk this great call of motherhood with Him holding your hand, you will be amazed at how He weaves the beautiful thread of redemption through the pattern of your life. He brings light to the dark places through you, something you could only have accomplished by embracing His wonderful call and embracing these very precious children who were inextricably created as part of the design for your life. May He bless you and fill you with great joy in this journey.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“The Bible says that without vision a people perish (see Proverbs 29:18, KJV). We need our dreams to give us the motivation to have a plan so that we can keep on. With no vision and no dreams and no longings, we lack the ability to creatively and joyously make plans for how we will spend our days. Granted, the Lord directs our steps, but we faithfully begin the walking of them.”
― Sarah Mae, Longing for Paris: One Woman's Search for Joy, Beauty and Adventure--Right Where She Is

“The only formula I want my children to tuck deep into their hearts is this: God has weaved each of us uniquely, and we are wonderfully made in His image. We have sin-tattered hearts, but Jesus mends them when we lean into Him and trust Him with our lives. There’s the formula. Give Him the bad, and He’ll give you the beautiful.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“Live well within the limitations of your personality and theirs and you will find more joy.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“Going at it alone is, without a doubt, one of the most common and effective strategies that Satan uses to discourage moms.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“Raising up godly children is a long-distance race. Long-distance runners pace themselves, knowing they will need to reserve energy for the whole length of the race. It is no different in our own lives as mothers.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

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― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“I have had to start almost every group to which I have ever belonged. One of the first lessons I learned was to not be discouraged if others did not invite me. In this individualistic culture where everyone is too busy and overwhelmed with life, the groups in which we find community will inevitably be the groups we start ourselves.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“We will never be able to live up to someone else’s expectations, but we are always acceptable to God when we live by faith and dependence on His grace.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe