“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
“Sometimes miracles look like instant healing; and other times, miracles look like medication and patience and discipline.” — Sarah Bessey Discipline 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
“Women have more to offer the church than mad decorating skills or craft nights.” — Sarah Bessey Church 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
“People want black-and-white answers, but Scripture is rainbow arch across a stormy sky.” — Sarah Bessey Rainbow 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Let’s sit here in hard truth and easy beauty, in the tensions of the Now and the Not Yet of the Kingdom… — Sarah Bessey Beauty Copy Share Image
“God has a global dream for his daughters and his sons, and it is bigger than our narrow interpretations or small box… — Sarah Bessey Bible Copy Share Image
“As we follow Christ in the counsel of the Holy Spirit, resting in the love of our Abba, we no longer fear—for… — Sarah Bessey Fear Copy Share Image
“One of the great surprises of the Church is the space to ask questions. Sure, there are some places and communities where… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
“The night that our friend's wife died, my brokenhearted husband called his mother: "What do I say?"... There is nothing to say.… — Sarah Bessey Friendship 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
“Life in Christ is not meant to mirror life in a Greco-Roman culture. An ancient Middle Eastern culture is not our standard.… — Sarah Bessey Life Copy Share Image
“But as long as I know how important maternal health is to Haiti’s future, and as long as I know that women… — Sarah Bessey 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
