281 Quotes by Rachel Held Evans

On the days when I am hungry – for community, for peace, for belief – I remember what it was like to feed people Jesus, and for people to feed Jesus to me. And those pieces of memory multiply, like the bread that fed the five thousand, spilling out of their baskets and filling every hollow space. Communion doesn’t answer every question, nor does it keep my stomach from rumbling from time to time, but I have found that it is enough.

Grace has been out of hand for more than two thousand years now. We best get used to it.

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.

Baptism reminds us that there’s no ladder to holiness to climb, no self-improvement plan to follow. It’s just death and resurrection, over and over again, day after day, as God reaches down into our deepest graves and with the same power that raised Jesus from the dead wrests us from our pride, our apathy, our fear, our prejudice, our anger, our hurt, and our despair.

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

No step taken in faith is wasted, not by a God who makes all things new.

There seems to be a universal consensus among people of faith that God is a morning person.

Even here, in the dark, God is busy making all things new. So show up. Open every door.

God’s ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.