Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory. — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“I marvel at how out of place simple, humble Jesus would be in today's American churches.” — Jen Hatmaker Jesus Copy Share Image
A fast is not necessarily something we offer God, but it assists us in offering ourselves — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“Constant prayer interrupts our ego trips and disrupts our toxic trajectories.” — Jen Hatmaker Prayer Copy Share Image
“The cross leveled the playing field, and no earthly distinction is valid anymore.” — Jen Hatmaker Cross Copy Share Image
When we realize we can stop being Jesus defenders, we can start being Jesus representatives . — Jen Hatmaker Defenders Copy Share Image
“I have a couple of long, funky necklaces I enjoy, some chunky rings, a few big bracelets to cover my wrist tattoo… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“It's about creating a place to belong before people are expected to behave or even believe.” — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“Our kids are the first generation in the history of America that has a shorter life span than their parents.” — Jen Hatmaker Children Copy Share Image
Maybe we don’t recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture. — Jen Hatmaker Consumer culture Copy Share Image
“What is not to love about a guy who pulled children onto His lap and saved a failing party and touched the… — Jen Hatmaker Children Copy Share Image
When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“We cannot carry the gospel to the poor and lowly while emulating the practices of the rich and powerful.” — Jen Hatmaker Christianity Copy Share Image
You will never have this day with your children again. Tomorrow they will be a little bigger then they are today. This… — Jen Hatmaker Attention Copy Share Image
“The wilderness is where all the creatives and prophets and system-buckers and risk-takers have always lived, and it is stunningly vibrant. The… — Jen Hatmaker Creativity Copy Share Image
“Desperately wanting God's kingdom to come, we lead with the law, like a sixteen-year-old girl who thought a Bible on a desk… — Jen Hatmaker Bible Copy Share Image
As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige,… — Jen Hatmaker Accumulation Copy Share Image
While the richest people on earth pray to get richer, the rest of the world begs for intervention with their faces pressed… — Jen Hatmaker Coffee Copy Share Image
“You can care about new things and new people and new beginnings, and until you are dead in the ground, you are… — Jen Hatmaker New beginning Copy Share Image
“Isolation concentrates every struggle. The longer we keep our heartaches tucked away in the dark, the more menacing they become. Pulling them… — Jen Hatmaker Heartaches Copy Share Image
Our children are humans and deserve to be treated respectfully. Discipline doesn’t include raging, screaming, abusing, neglecting, humiliating, or shaming our kids.… — Jen Hatmaker Children Copy Share Image
“We don't see the New Testament church hoarding the feast for themselves, gorging, getting fatter and fatter and asking for more; more… — Jen Hatmaker Bible Copy Share Image
“If you want to make good friends, be a good friend. Send kindness out in big, generous waves, send it near and… — Jen Hatmaker Friendship Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the best way to bring good news to the poor is to bring actual good news to the poor. It appears… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“You are far more than your worst day, your worst experience, your worst season, dear one. You are more than the sorriest… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“A homeless man clarified this once: “You know? We’ve lost so many things: dignity, security, our marriages, our jobs. But one thing… — Jen Hatmaker Children Copy Share Image
It is immature and lazy to imagine we know everything there is to know about someone before we know that someone. We… — Jen Hatmaker Best memories Copy Share Image
“Finally, I would hug 2004 Jen, understanding that discipleship is a journey, and each stage is a necessary precursor to the following… — Jen Hatmaker Discipleship Copy Share Image
“But God's idea of a fast is less about what we're against and more about what we are for. (...) When we… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
There are only 24 hours in a day. We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise. — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“There is something so marvelous about women comfortable in their own skin.” — Jen Hatmaker Body image Copy Share Image
Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t. — Jen Hatmaker Adoption Copy Share Image
“G. K. Chesterton wrote: “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”2 Change… — Jen Hatmaker Change Copy Share Image
“I approach this project in the spirit of a fast: an intentional reduction, a deliberate abstinence to summon God's movement in my… — Jen Hatmaker Fasting Copy Share Image
“I may just be one shade of one color of one strand, but I'm part of an elaborate tapestry that goes beyond… — Jen Hatmaker Tapestry Copy Share Image
“I have spent half of my life listening to someone else talk about God. Because of this history, I've developed something of… — Jen Hatmaker History Copy Share Image
