Quotes by Rachel Held Evans

Rachel Held Evans

And so, at least symbolically, the blood of Eve courses through each one of her daughters’ veins. We are each associated with life; each subject to the impossible expectations and cruel projections of men; each fallen, blamed, and misunderstood; and each stubbornly vital to the process of bringing something new–perhaps something better–into this world…We are each an Eve.

Blood

Daughter

Men

But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn’t offer a cure. It doesn’t offer a quick fix. The church offers death and resurrection. The church offers the messy, inconvenient, gut-wrenching, never-ending work of healing and reconciliation.

Church

Healing

Might

Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.

Age

Church

Two

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. The former has the potential to destroy faith; that latter has the power to enrich and refine it. The former is a vice; the latter a virtue.

Animal

Believe

Differences

I don’t know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.

Christian

Church

Fighting

I’m a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present within ourselves. It tells the truth about the human condition – that we’re not okay.

Christian

Names

Reality

In an age of information overload … the last thing any of us needs is more information about God. We need the practice of incarnation, by which God saves the lives of those whose intellectual assent has turned them dry as dust, who have run frighteningly low on the Bread of Life, who are dying to know more God in their bodies. Not more about God. More God.

Bread Of Life

Practice

Running

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 offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.

Agonizing

People

Purpose

It wasn’t shared social status or ethnicity that brought Jesus’ followers together either, nor was it total agreement on exactly who this Jesus character was – a prophet? The Messiah? The Son of God? No, there is one thing that connected all these dissimilar people together it was a shared sense of need: a hunger, a thirst, a longing. It was the certainty that, when Jesus said He came for the sick, this meant Jesus came for me.

Character

Jesus

Son

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Coffee

Fog

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Agonizing

All Things

Animal

Anthem

Assignments

Beautiful

Believe

Blood

Bread Of Life

Cacophony

Character

Christian

Church

Coffee

Covenant

Culture

Daughter

Differences

Faithful

Fighting

Fog

Giving

Glimpse

Grace

Grief

Healing

Humble

Ideals

Ironic

Jesus

Jobs

Kindness

Letters

Lust

Made

Masters

Meals

Men

Might

Mistake

Moving

Names

Needs

Noticing

People

Practice

Purpose

Reality

Running

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Quotes by Rachel Held Evans

Rachel Held Evans

But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn’t offer a cure. It doesn’t offer a quick fix. The church offers death and resurrection. The church offers the messy, inconvenient, gut-wrenching, never-ending work of healing and reconciliation.

Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.

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. The former has the potential to destroy faith; that latter has the power to enrich and refine it. The former is a vice; the latter a virtue.

I don’t know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.

I’m a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present within ourselves. It tells the truth about the human condition – that we’re not okay.

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 offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.

No coffee shops or fog machines required [for church].

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