Rachel Billups > Quotes

“We know he [Timothy] never converted to Judaism, since in Acts we learn that young Timothy needed to be circumcised. So I have no idea what led Timothy to follow Paul int the great unknown, other than his deep faith in Jesus and the movement of the Holy Spirit. Paul's faith and leadership must have been contagious for a young man who had all the freedoms of the Greco-Roman culture to trade it in for a painful procedure and life of risk with Paul.”
― Rachel Billups

“The truth is, I don't need a great-leader highlight reel. I need the pain, the struggle, the Saturday nights when I just want to throw in the towel. I need to hear all the feels--anger, yes; jealousy, yep; but also numbness. I need this when the pain is too much, the problems too big, and the world too broken to feel like I can do a thing about it. Okay, I don't want a mentor who bleeds all over the place, but I don't want one that's totally polished either. I like my mentors just like I like my Bible characters: human, very human.”
― Rachel Billups, Be Bold: Finding Your Fierce

“Getting the people out of Egypt would be the easy part; getting Egypt out of the people would be much harder.”
― Rachel Billups, Be Bold: Finding Your Fierce

“God is not limited by our limited love.”
― Rachel Billups, Be Bold: Finding Your Fierce

“But fear is dangerous when it convinces you that you are less than what you've been created to be.”
― Rachel Billups, Be Bold: Finding Your Fierce

“But I once had someone advise me about the place of fear in deciding about my purpose and call: "Think about your choices. Which choice scares you the most? You know the one. If you say yes to that choice, you think, There's no way this will work. I can't do it. It's beyond my skills and gifts. Well that's what purpose feels like. It's terrifying, it's beyond your capacity. It's beyond you! That's the kind of decision you need to say yes to--that's a God opportunity.”
― Rachel Billups, Be Bold: Finding Your Fierce

“The role I played in my organization was not to get people to be for me, to love me, to affirm me as a leader, but to inspire people to be for what I was for.”
― Rachel Billups, Be Bold: Finding Your Fierce