“Women have more to offer the church than mad decorating skills or craft nights.” — Sarah Bessey Church Copy Share Image
“We’ll stand before the piles of stones that used to be weapons, and we’ll build an altar.” — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
“May we be...the ones who hold our opinions loosely and yet love ferociously.” — Sarah Bessey Love Copy Share Image
“Sometimes miracles look like instant healing; and other times, miracles look like medication and patience and discipline.” — Sarah Bessey Discipline Copy Share Image
“We pit our pain against God, holding tally and requiring meaning, instead of saying the truth: This isn't God's will.” — Sarah Bessey God Copy Share Image
“People want black-and-white answers, but Scripture is rainbow arch across a stormy sky.” — Sarah Bessey Rainbow Copy Share Image
“There is no more hateful person than a Christian who thinks you’ve got your theology wrong.” — Sarah Bessey Christian Copy Share Image
“American preacher and theologian Jonathan Edwards aptly said, “The task of every generation is to discover in which direction the Sovereign Redeemer… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
“Miracles sometimes look like a kapow! lightning-strike revelation; and sometimes miracles look like showing up for your counseling appointments.” — Sarah Bessey Miracle Copy Share Image
“I want you to wrestle with the Bible. Do it. Wrestle until, Jacob-like, you walk with a limp ever after, and you… — Sarah Bessey Bible Copy Share Image
“Christian feminists can celebrate any sort of feminism that brings more justice and human flourishing to the world, no matter who is… — Sarah Bessey Christianity Copy Share Image
“We reject the lies of inequality, we affirm the Spirit, we forgive radically, we advocate for love and demonstrate it by folding… — Sarah Bessey Love Copy Share Image
“We indulge in semantics and slippery-slope rhetoric to excuse injustice. We read a few verses about women in a vacuum of literalism… — Sarah Bessey Justice Copy Share Image
“I look forward to the day when women with leadership and insight, gifts and talents, callings and prophetic leanings are called out… — Sarah Bessey Feminism Copy Share Image
“...here is, very simply, what I learned about Jesus and the ladies: he loves us. He loves us. On our own terms.… — Sarah Bessey Christianity Copy Share Image
“who wants to live in an ivory tower when there is fresh air to breathe anyway? I want to be outside with… — Sarah Bessey Arms wide open Copy Share Image
“The curse that was laid upon Eve—her desire would be for her husband, and her pain in childbirth would be greatly multiplied—even… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
“Whether it's racism, patriarchy, warmongering, greed, or child trafficking, it's counter to God's Kingdom. But the people caught in those systems are… — Sarah Bessey Children Copy Share Image
“When Jesus finished teaching in a synagogue one day, a woman called out from the audience, 'God bless your mother—the womb from… — Sarah Bessey Blessing Copy Share Image
“But I do want to take my life's work right now, today—whether it's a book I'm writing or a phone call I'm… — Sarah Bessey Books Copy Share Image
“The Kingdom of God works into us like yeast, and it grows like a seed in good soil. It enters quietly, holistically,… — Sarah Bessey Kingdom Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, yes, we do speak to a mountain and it will lift up and be cast into the sea. But I've also… — Sarah Bessey Change Copy Share Image
“And now for me, faith is less of a brick edifice of belief and doctrine and right answers than it is a… — Sarah Bessey Bread and wine Copy Share Image
“Whether we admit it or not, as people of faith, we sift our theology through Scripture, Church history and tradition, our reason,… — Sarah Bessey Church history Copy Share Image
“So here is what I see when we reclaim the church ladies: a woman loved and free is beautiful. She is laughing… — Sarah Bessey Around the world Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had never known… — Sarah Bessey Church Copy Share Image
“I think you have a great women's ministry when the women of your community fall wildly in love with Jesus. Church ladies… — Sarah Bessey Justice and love Copy Share Image
“The Kingdom of God is being established in this world, absolutely, but it's foolish to think that this is happening through rainbows… — Sarah Bessey Jesus Copy Share Image
“One needn't identify as a feminist to participate in the redemptive movement of God for women in the world, The gospel is… — Sarah Bessey Christianity Copy Share Image
“The lack of women among the twelve disciples isn't prescriptive or a precedent for exclusion of women any more than the choice… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
“I won’t desecrate beauty with cynicism anymore. I won’t confuse critical thinking with a critical spirit, and I will practice, painfully, over… — Sarah Bessey Beauty Copy Share Image
“People have tried to tell us that women aren’t as visual as men. To which, I respond: “Um, have you heard of… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
“Rest in your God-breathed worth. Stop holding your breath, hiding your gifts, ducking your head, dulling your roar, distracting your soul, stilling… — Sarah Bessey Breath Copy Share Image
“Plant gardens in your exile, work for the good of the city, and don't be so caught up in the "not yet"… — Sarah Bessey Exile Copy Share Image
“People want black-and-white answers, but Scripture is rainbow arch across a stormy sky. Our sacred book is not an indexed answer book… — Sarah Bessey Books Copy Share Image
“God’s vision is a call to move forward into the future in the full operation of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,… — Sarah Bessey Dreams Copy Share Image
