Rachel Grace Held (Rachel Held Evans) Quotes

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.

Rachel Grace Held

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• People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

  

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• There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

  

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• The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

  

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• It's okay, when we as women are in a serving role. But it's not okay, it appears, still, when we have full access to power.

  

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• 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.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • God
  • Way
  • Imagine