Quotes from Stasi Eldredge

Offenses that are held on to lead to death.

Remember, misogyny is hatred. Whether we are aware of it or not, when we hate other girls, we are hating ourselves, cooperating with the Enemy, and perpetuating grave damage. To hate, Jesus said, is to murder.

Dream. You have permission to dream. And besides, if you don't have a dream, how can you have a dream come true?

Paul says in Philippians 4:19, 'And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.' Our needs won't be met according to the destitution of the world or to the poverty of our own faith in the moment but according to the riches in Jesus. There's no one richer than him!

The more specific I am about the details I am concerned with as I pray, the better the results.

We are loved. Born out of love, into love, to know love, and to be loved. Yes, we were born into a fallen, sorry world, which is at the same time more lovely than any fairy tale. It is both. And in this beautiful, heartbreaking world, God—the eternal, omniscient, amazing One—loves human beings. Including you. Especially you.  You are amazing.

You are not disappointing him now. You may be disappointed, but he is not. Jesus knew what he was in for when he came "to seek and to save what was lost" (Luke 19:10). He came to seek and to save all that was lost—in our loving and living and dreaming and longing. He has saved us, and he is saving us still. We are being transformed into the very image of Christ. Whether we feel like it or not.

Jesus, I give you my weariness. I give you my doubt. I give you my desire to give up. I come with my thirst. I offer you my desire, my gifting, my weakness, my need, my failure, my everything. I give you all that I am, God. I give you my love.

He calls us to gaze not on our brokenness but on our Healer. He says, "Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith" (Heb. 12:2). We move toward what we focus on.

God has not given me a spirit of fear, so why am I so consumed with worry over my children, my finances, my future? If the fear of man is a snare, why do I still find I am terrified of exposing my true self and then being rejected?

No one gets a pain-free life. I know some girls' lives look pretty perfect from a distance, but only from a distance. You get close and you learn the truth. A life without suffering is a fantasy life, and you don't live in a fantasy.

God isn't waiting for me to get my act together in order to become worthy of his affection. I have only and ever been lovely to God, and so have you.

God is not going to love me any more or any differently when and if I finally lose this weight and become free from the stranglehold of food. Jesus's love for me, my Father's love for me, never changes.

I believe God is in the business of setting us free, making each of us into the woman he always wanted us to be. The woman we always wanted to be. Sometimes he does it with the flip of a switch. But not most of the time (as you well know). Most of the time God invites us into a process of change—a process where by his grace we can rise to the occasion of our lives. But before we talk about that process, there are a few things we need to get straight.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. —Madeleine L'Engle

Fear is also defined as "a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, or pain; whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid."2 Others define it this way: F.E.A.R.: Faith Exits and Runs F.E.A.R.: Forget Everything and React Or the ever popular: F.E.A.R.: False Evidence Appearing Real

The hard, true thing about our deepest fears is that what happens is completely out of our control. Life is primarily out of our control. People are out of our control, and certainly their choices are out of our control. There is only one person we can ultimately choose life over fear for. Ourselves.

You must cultivate your hope if you are to live in joy. You need to think on what is coming. Remember the words of Peter: "Set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 1:13 ESV).

Father bestows identity. Mother bestows self-worth.

With self-discipline, the focus remains "self," so we are already off to a bad start. Trying, striving, working harder may get us through the week, but it won't take us through the decades.

Christianity has done more to elevate the status of women than any other movement in history.

The popular saying is "seeing is believing," but in Christ, believing leads to seeing.

Señor, ¿cuáles son los acuerdos que he hecho en cuanto a mi matrimonio?» «¿Cuáles son los acuerdos que he hecho en cuanto al amor?» «¿Cuáles son los acuerdos que he hecho en cuanto a mi cónyuge?»

We are being transformed into the very image of Christ. Whether we feel like it or not.