Rachel Grace Held Quotes

United States, Columnist
June 8, 1981 – May, 4, 2019.

Rachel Held Evans was an American Christian columnist, blogger and author. Her book A Year of Biblical Womanhood was a New York Times bestseller in e-book non-fiction, and Searching for Sunday was a New York Times bestseller nonfiction paperback.

Also known as Author, Blogger

What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

Rachel Grace Held
- God
- Knows
- Poet
But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn't offer a cure. It doesn't offer a quick fix. The church offers death and resurrection. The church offers the messy, inconvenient, gut-wrenching, never-ending work of healing and reconciliation.

Rachel Grace Held
- World
- Work
- Truth

I can't be a Christian on my own. I need a community. I need the church.

Rachel Grace Held
I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.

Rachel Grace Held
- God
- Why
- History
What makes the Gospel offensive isn’t who it keeps out, but who it lets in.

Rachel Grace Held
- Offensive
I have come to regard with some suspicion those who claim that the Bible never troubles them. I can only assume this means they haven’t actually read it.

Rachel Grace Held
- Mean
- Bible
- Trouble
I’m ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.

Rachel Grace Held
- War
- Stop
- Feet