Jen Hatmaker Quotes

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• God does not change, but He uses change—to change us. He sends us on journeys that bring us to the end of ourselves. We often…
• If a fast doesn't include any sacrifices, then it's not a fast. The discomfort is where the magic happens. Life zips along, unchecked and automatic.…
• For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.
• We cannot carry the gospel to the poor and lowly while emulating the practices of the rich and powerful. We’ve been invited into a story…
• Our children are humans and deserve to be treated respectfully. Discipline doesn’t include raging, screaming, abusing, neglecting, humiliating, or shaming our kids. God never treats…
• As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige, and self-preservation, giving…
• Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory.
• Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We don't know how…
• Maybe we don’t recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.
• We have this one life to offer; there is no second chance.
• Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.
• Obedience isn’t a lack of fear. It’s just doing it scared.
• For Jesus, who lived so lightly on this earth, He didn’t even have a place to lay His head. I want so deeply to be…
• While the richest people on earth pray to get richer, the rest of the world begs for intervention with their faces pressed to the window,…
• Our only hope to speak with kindness, to lead with patience, and to not threaten our children with homicide is to ensure our spiritual reserves…
• It is immature and lazy to imagine we know everything there is to know about someone before we know that someone. We don't know their…
• I see a strategy for fracturing humanity well in play: just keep people separated and let them reinforce invented boundaries in their imaginations. Because when…
• Take something away, and your habits become clear.
• When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.
• You will never have this day with your children again. Tomorrow they will be a little bigger then they are today. This day is a…

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