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A Year of Biblical Womanhood QUOTES

A Year of Biblical Womanhood QUOTES

41 " I get the sense that many in the contemporary biblical womanhood movement feel that the tasks associated with homemaking have been so marginalized in our culture that it’s up to them to restore the sacredness of keeping the home. This is a noble goal indeed, and one around which all people of faith can rally. But in our efforts to celebrate and affirm God’s presence in the home, we should be wary of elevating the vocation of homemaking above all others by insinuating that for women, God’s presence is somehow restricted to that sphere. If God is the God of all pots and pans, then He is also the God of all shovels and computers and paints and assembly lines and executive offices and classrooms. Peace and joy belong not to the woman who finds the right vocation, but to the woman who finds God in any vocation, who looks for the divine around every corner. "

― Rachel Held Evans , A Year of Biblical Womanhood

42 " maybe God was trying to tell me that gentleness begins with strength, quietness with security. A great tree is both moved and unmoved, for it changes with the seasons, but its roots keep it anchored in the ground. Mastering a gentle and quiet spirit didn’t mean changing my personality, just regaining control of it, growing strong enough to hold back and secure enough to soften. "

― Rachel Held Evans , A Year of Biblical Womanhood

43 " If Christians have learned anything from our rocky two-thousand-year theological history, it’s that we make the most beautiful things ugly when we try to systematize mystery. Even the writers of Scripture knew that some things were simply beyond their grasp. "

― Rachel Held Evans , A Year of Biblical Womanhood

44 " The Bible isn’t an answer book. It isn’t a self-help manual. It isn’t a flat, perspicuous list of rules and regulations that we can interpret objectively and apply unilaterally to our lives. The Bible is a sacred collection of letters and laws, poetry and proverbs, philosophy and prophecies, written and assembled over thousands of years in cultures and contexts very different from our own, that tells the complex, ever-unfolding story of God’s interaction with humanity. "

― Rachel Held Evans , A Year of Biblical Womanhood

45 " We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master. "

― Rachel Held Evans , A Year of Biblical Womanhood

46 " Martha certainly wasn't the first and she won't be the last to dismiss someone else's encounter with God because it didn't fit the mold. "

― Rachel Held Evans , A Year of Biblical Womanhood

47 " If love was Jesus’ definition of “biblical,” then perhaps it should be mine. "

― Rachel Held Evans , A Year of Biblical Womanhood

48 " I knew somewhere deep in my bones that a revolution was afoot, that the women of this earth were rising up, and that, in some way great or small, I was going to be a part of it. "

― Rachel Held Evans , A Year of Biblical Womanhood

49 " I think Paul would roll over in his grave if he knew we were turning his letters into torah. —F. F. BRUCE "

― Rachel Held Evans , A Year of Biblical Womanhood

50 " The Bible does not present us with a single model for womanhood, and the notion that it contains a sort of one-size-fits-all formula for how to be a woman of faith is a myth. "

― Rachel Held Evans , A Year of Biblical Womanhood

51 " In the biblical narrative, hierarchy enters human relationship as part of the curse, and begins with man’s oppression of women—“your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you” (Genesis 3:16). But with Christ, hierarchal relationships are exposed for the sham that they are, as the last are made first, the first are made last, the poor are blessed, the meek inherit the earth, and the God of the universe takes the form of a slave. "

― Rachel Held Evans , A Year of Biblical Womanhood

52 " according to Ahava, 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 even the smallest things with valor. "

― Rachel Held Evans , A Year of Biblical Womanhood

53 " Let nothing upset you, Let nothing startle you. All things pass; God does not change. Patience wins all it seeks. Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone is enough. "

― Rachel Held Evans , A Year of Biblical Womanhood

54 " If you want to do violence in this world, you will always find the weapons. If you want to heal, you will always find the balm. "

― Rachel Held Evans , A Year of Biblical Womanhood

55 " Those who seek to glorify biblical womanhood have forgotten the dark stories. They have forgotten that the concubine of Bethlehem, the raped princess of David’s house, the daughter of Jephthah, and the countless unnamed women who lived and died between the lines of Scripture exploited, neglected, ravaged, and crushed at the hand of patriarchy are as much a part of our shared narrative as Deborah, Esther, Rebekah, and Ruth. "

― Rachel Held Evans , A Year of Biblical Womanhood

56 " That Christ ushered in this new era of life and liberation in the presence of women, and that he sent them out as the first witnesses of the complete gospel story, is perhaps the boldest, most overt affirmation of their equality in this kingdom that Jesus ever delivered. And yet too many Easter services begin with a man standing before a congregation shouting, "He is risen!" to a chorused response of "He is risen indeed!" Were we to honor the symbolic details of the text, that distinction would always belong to a woman. "

― Rachel Held Evans , A Year of Biblical Womanhood

57 " 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 actually read it. Clearly, "

― Rachel Held Evans , A Year of Biblical Womanhood

58 " rules that left people guilt-ridden, exhausted, and confused were not really from God. "

― Rachel Held Evans , A Year of Biblical Womanhood

59 " One need not be a saint, or even a mother, to become a bearer of God. One needs only to obey. The divine resides in all of us, but it is our choice to magnify it or diminish it, to ignore it or to surrender to its lead. "

― Rachel Held Evans , A Year of Biblical Womanhood

60 " Peace and joy belong not to the woman who finds the right vocation, but to the woman who finds God in any vocation, who looks for the divine around every corner. "

― Rachel Held Evans , A Year of Biblical Womanhood