281 Quotes by Rachel Held Evans

I’ve often said that those who say having a childlike faith means not asking questions haven’t met too many children.

The Psalms are, in a sense, God’s way of holding space for us. They invite us to rejoice, wrestle, cry, complain, offer thanks, and shout obscenities before our Maker without self-consciousness and without fear.

We’ve been instructed to reject any trace of poetry, myth, hyperbole, or symbolism even when those literary forms are virtually shouting at us from the page via talking snakes and enchanted trees.

Doubt is the mechanism by which faith evolves.

If salvation is available only to Christians, then the gospel isn’t good news at all. For most of the human race, it is terrible news.

To be a priest,′ writes Barbara Brown Taylor, ’is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are.

Many months would pass before I understood that people bond more deeply over shared brokenness than they do over shared beliefs.

Death is something empires worry about, not something gardeners worry about. It’s certainly not something resurrection people worry about.

I’m ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.