Quotes from Rachel Held Evans
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 disguised as an adjective.
- Rachel Held Evans
Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.
- Rachel Held Evans
No step taken in faith is wasted, not by a God who makes all things new.
- Rachel Held Evans
Scripture doesn't speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.
- Rachel Held Evans
We all long for someone to tell us who we are. The great struggle of the Christian life is to take God's name for us, to believe we are beloved and to believe that is enough.
- Rachel Held Evans
We are not spared death, but the power of death has been defeated. The grip of sin has been loosed. We are invited to share the victory, to follow the path of God back to life.
- Rachel Held Evans
Faith isn't about having everything figured out ahead of time; faith is about following the quiet voice of God without having everything figured out ahead of time.
- Rachel Held Evans
Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us.
- Rachel Held Evans
Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary.
- Rachel Held Evans
What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.
- Rachel Held Evans
The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.
- Rachel Held Evans
I'm ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.
- Rachel Held Evans