Rachel Held Evans Quotes
- My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.
- God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can…
- As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ.
- What a comfort to know that God is a poet.
- What I love about the ministry of Jesus is that he identified the poor as blessed and the rich as needy...and then he went and…
- When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon…
- I have come to regard with some suspicion those who claim that the Bible never troubles them. I can only assume this means they haven’t…
- My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand... I think…
- The Proverbs 31 woman is a star not because of what she does but how she does it—with valor. So do your thing. If it’s…
- You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.
- I think maybe God was trying to tell me that gentleness begins with strength, quietness with security. A great tree is both moved and unmoved,…
- Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.
- Evangelicalism is like my religious mother tongue. I revert to it whenever I’m angry or excited or surrounded by other people who understand what I’m…
- It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly…
- The woman described in Proverbs 31 is not some ideal that exists out there; she is present in each one of us when we do…
- What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.
- We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.
- I’m ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.
- While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that…
- Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we believe about God.…