Becoming Women of the Word Quotes

“When we don’t look to God to fulfill us, no matter what we find to put in it, the hole in our heart remains. And instead of feeling that hole as capacity, like a nest ready to receive life, we feel it as emptiness.”
― Sarah Christmyer, Becoming Women of the Word: How to Answer God's Call with Purpose and Joy

“Returning love for harm transforms injury into a thing of lasting beauty. Pouring love onto another’s need does the same thing.”
― Sarah Christmyer, Becoming Women of the Word: How to Answer God's Call with Purpose and Joy

“It’s a paradox of the spiritual life that when we give out of our emptiness, God will fill us”
― Sarah Christmyer, Becoming Women of the Word: How to Answer God's Call with Purpose and Joy

“God doesn’t have visiting hours, neither does he sleep. He’s there whenever we need him.”
― Sarah Christmyer, Becoming Women of the Word: How to Answer God's Call with Purpose and Joy

“Queen or no queen, I have a royal destiny. […] no matter what I look like, where I live, or how much I have now, I am a princess. I am a daughter of the King of Kings!
That’s true of every one of us who belong to God. We are daughters of the King, born ‘for such a time as this.’ From where we sit, ‘this’ might look like a palace or the inside of a harem or a drab place of exile. Born born for ‘this’ doesn’t mean ‘this’ is our ultimate end. It means we’re uniquely positioned with our particular gifts, experiences, abilities, and limitations to do something further God’s kingdom here—in this place, at this time, and among these people.”
― Sarah Christmyer, Becoming Women of the Word: How to Answer God's Call with Purpose and Joy

“People are born, Christians are reborn. Both physical and spiritual motherhood ... are central to God's plan.”
― Sarah Christmyer, Becoming Women of the Word: How to Answer God's Call with Purpose and Joy

“Faith is accepting [God’s offer of love]—even if it means holding his hand in the dark.”
― Sarah Christmyer, Becoming Women of the Word: How to Answer God's Call with Purpose and Joy

“God calls us out of the pain of our longing, not necessarily by erasing it or by giving us what we want but by giving us himself. His perfect love is always on offer; he’s always there for us.”
― Sarah Christmyer, Becoming Women of the Word: How to Answer God's Call with Purpose and Joy

“There’s something about lifting your voice to God, especially in the words of the Psalms. If you have something to be thankful for, it gives shape to your gratefulness. And if you don’t, the song becomes a place into which to pour your overflowing heart. The psalms give voice to your sorrow and pain, and singing them lifts up your heart. It resets your focus on God and gives you hope.”
― Sarah Christmyer, Becoming Women of the Word: How to Answer God's Call with Purpose and Joy

“God doesn’t value or love us based on our worth, measured according to some impossible standard of perfection. On the contrary, we are worth a great deal because he loves us.”
― Sarah Christmyer, Becoming Women of the Word: How to Answer God's Call with Purpose and Joy

“God always can bring a greater good out of a bad situation, even a terribly evil one”
― Sarah Christmyer, Becoming Women of the Word: How to Answer God's Call with Purpose and Joy

“Nothing can separate us from [God’s] love, and he has a way of turning even the blackest situations (think of the Cross!) into occasions of life and glory.”
― Sarah Christmyer, Becoming Women of the Word: How to Answer God's Call with Purpose and Joy

“Just because the Fall ripped [goodness and beauty] apart and beauty can be misused doesn’t mean they can’t go together. It’s not true that goodness comes only in plain and ugly packages, or that beauty has to hide a rotten core.”
― Sarah Christmyer, Becoming Women of the Word: How to Answer God's Call with Purpose and Joy

“In the end, beauty isn’t measured by physical features but by our likeness to the One in whose image we’re created. So do we measure ourselves against others, then manipulate our beauty to form our own image? Or do we see ourselves as God sees us and allow him to mold us into his likeness?
God wants to make us ‘good’ in the Genesis 1 sense of the word. Not a goody-two-shoes, afraid-to-do-anything-wrong sort of good. A beautiful, magnificent good that’s terrible in its splendor.”
― Sarah Christmyer, Becoming Women of the Word: How to Answer God's Call with Purpose and Joy

“Human emptiness...gives God a place in which to plant his life.”
― Sarah Christmyer, Becoming Women of the Word: How to Answer God's Call with Purpose and Joy