Rachel Grace Held (Rachel Held Evans) Quotes

We're (millennials) looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity.

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• The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Time
  • God
  • Man

• If God did not act first, no one would be saved.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • First
  • Saved

• We had two long drives there that we didn't finish well in the second half, our guys felt like defensively, ... We gave up four big plays, which resulted in a lot of yardage there.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Long
  • Game

• The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Real
  • Saint

• I think you are putting the cart before the horse.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Horse
  • Cart

• I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Sense
  • Surprise
  • Arguing

• The arena of women's lives is somewhat more intimate. If a woman goes out with an incredibly attractive man and they break up, that woman is not more attractive to men. It's completely irrelevant to them. That's an example of the way women's minds work.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • Work
  • Men

• To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Action
  • Successful
  • Sufficient

• Donald Trump's promised the moon. Now he has power. He's going to fail to deliver. He's not going to be able to bring a bunch of coal jobs back and a bunch of factory jobs back in this global economy. Period. Because you can't. It's not going to happen.

  

  Van Jones
  • Power
  • Period
  • Trump

• The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • God
  • Men

• The camera lies all the time -- lies 24 times/second.

  

  Brian De Palma
  • Time
  • Lies
  • Camera

• Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Patience
  • Bliss

• Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.

  

  Plato
  • Balance
  • Pleasure
  • Pains

• The more generous we are, the more joyous we become.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Generosity
  • Generous
  • Enthusiastic

• It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

  

  William Labov
  • Slavery
  • Creation
  • Form

• We're (millennials) looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Christianity
  • Millennials
  • Authentic Christianity