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Sarah Bessey quotes
And now for me, faith is less of a brick edifice of belief and doctrine and right answers than it is a wide-open sky ringed with pine trees black against a cold sunset, an altar, a welcome, bread and wine, an unfathomably ferocious love, and a profound sense of my belovedness.
— Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
I want you to wrestle with the Bible. Do it. Wrestle until, Jacob-like, you walk with a limp ever after, and you receive the blessing of the Lord.
— Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
We’ll stand before the piles of stones that used to be weapons, and we’ll build an altar.
— Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
I won’t desecrate beauty with cynicism anymore. I won’t confuse critical thinking with a critical spirit, and I will practice, painfully, over and over, patience and peace until my gentle answers turn away even my own wrath.
— Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
Christian feminists can celebrate any sort of feminism that brings more justice and human flourishing to the world, no matter who is bringing it, since we recognize the hand of God in all that is good.
— Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
There is no more hateful person than a Christian who thinks you’ve got your theology wrong.
— Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
The line between sacred and secular is man-made.
— Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
Rest in your God-breathed worth. Stop holding your breath, hiding your gifts, ducking your head, dulling your roar, distracting your soul, stilling your hands, quieting your voice, and satiating your hunger with the lesser things of this world.
— Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
…here is, very simply, what I learned about Jesus and the ladies: he loves us. He loves us. On our own terms. He treats us as equals to the men around him; he listens; he does not belittle; he honors us; he challenges us; he teaches us; he includes us..
— Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
Many of the seminal social issues of our time – poverty, lack of education, human trafficking, war and torture, domestic abuse – can track their way to our theology of, or beliefs about, women, which has its roots in what we believe about the nature, purposes, and character of God.
— Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
But again, this is not a list of rules; we are not reading an impossible standard—no. This describes our Jesus. This! This is our Abba. This is our Holy Spirit. He never gives up, and he takes pleasure in the flowering of truth. And when we are following in the ways of Jesus, when we are abiding in the Vine, these become our characteristics, and we become signposts, tastes, movements of the Kingdom to the North, a glimpse of true Love.
— Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
Hurry wounds a questioning soul.
— Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist
Whether we admit it or not, as people of faith, we sift our theology through Scripture, Church history and tradition, our reason, and our own experience. Most Christians, even the most committed of the sola scriptura crowd, use these four pillars—at varying degrees of importance and strength—to figure out the ways of God in our world and what it means here and now for our walking-around lives. And taking this a bit further into postmodern territory, we can also admit that we are relying on our own imperfect and subjective interpretations of those pillars, too.
— Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
When our hearts, minds, and souls are deep within the reality of living loved, we discover that most of those “rules” from Sunday school are simply our new characteristics and our family traits. They are the fruit born of a meaningful, life-changing relationship—they are the flowers of life in the Vine.
— Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
When I tried to meet some impossible standard for motherhood, tried to earn my way to a weird sort of Proverbs 31 Woman Club, I collapsed in exhaustion and simmering anger, sadness, and failure. This was not life in the Vine, this exhausting job description; this was not the Kingdom of God, let alone a redeemed woman living full. This was the shell of someone trying to measure up, trying to earn through her mothering what God had already freely given. This was someone feeling the weight of unmet expectations from the Church and her own self and the world all at once.
— Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
Even if we change practices or behaviors, we are seeking transformed hearts. We must know in our bones God’s heart for equality and wholeness in the Body of Christ then live our lives out of that truth, with invitation and joy, as living prophets of God’s way of life.
— Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
One needn’t identify as a feminist to participate in the redemptive movement of God for women in the world, The gospel is more than enough. Of course it is! But as long as I know how important maternal health is to Haiti’s future, and as long as I know that women are being abused and raped, as long as I know girls are being denied life itself through selective abortion, abandonment, and abuse, as long as brave little girls in Afghanistan are attacked with acid for the crime of going to school, and until being a Christian is synonymous with doing something about these things, you can also call me a feminist.
— Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
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