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“The family of God is not built on blood, but on choice—God’s adoption of us, which we have done nothing to deserve, but also our decision to choose God.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“Once you have looked into the eyes of God and seen Him looking back at you, even the impossible can seem doable.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“hope. Let this be a lesson for us, to step in and lift up those around us who are suffering.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“Often their lives can seem wildly off track. Sometimes it’s hard to understand the suffering that finds its way into their paths. Maybe that’s true of your own journey. What’s consistent throughout all of time is that God has purpose in each twist and turn, especially the ones we don’t see coming.”
― Shannon Bream, The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak: Lessons on Faith from Nine Biblical Families

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― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“Though His power was clearly the source of her healing, Jesus identified her faith as having activated her cure.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.” (Genesis 16:13)”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“After more than a decade of suffering, bad news, and financial ruin, she was finally free, healed in an instant—all because she dared reach out to Him for help when every earthly avenue had ended in nothing but loss and despair.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“In the midst of our most profound pain, there is often great relief in laying all our hurts and fears before our Heavenly Father. He already knows the turmoil or trials in our lives, but there's something freeing about talking to Him, unloading our burdens and taking up His assurances to serve as our strength and our shield, our refuge and hiding
place.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak: The Wisdom of 16 Women and Their Lessons for Today

“But as sometimes happens when we stop trusting God’s plan and go our own way, things went terribly wrong.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“The trouble comes when we become overly focused on all the things we can do for God, rather than on spending time and being in communion with Him.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“I choose to believe there is purpose in the pain and that most people really do have good intentions.”
― Shannon Bream, Finding the Bright Side: The Art of Chasing What Matters

“.....fertility in the ancient world was about much more than just having children. Fertility, the life created and carried by women, was considered a sign of God's favor. For Rachel, her lack of fertility must have felt like a curse. Was infertility to be her reward for everything she had gone through? She had waited seven long years for her chance to marry Jacob and have children. Surely, God would reward her! But it seemed she got only heartache instead.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak: The Wisdom of 16 Women and Their Lessons for Today

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our LORD. Romans 8:38–39”
― Shannon Bream, The Love Stories of the Bible Speak: Biblical Lessons on Romance, Friendship, and Faith

“They are, on the whole, neither fully good nor completely bad people, but simply people, in all their messy and uncomfortable humanity. And it’s when we can see them in their full humanity that God can teach us something about ourselves.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“In fear, rather than confidence, we refuse to take the risk of trusting God, to take Him at His unfailing word.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 2 Timothy 3:12”
― Shannon Bream, The Love Stories of the Bible Speak: Biblical Lessons on Romance, Friendship, and Faith

“There is an ancient Jewish tradition that says that to publicly shame another person is the same as committing murder because, regardless of your reasons, you have murdered that person’s reputation forever.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“like Esther at times in our walk with God.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“The “God Who Sees” is the God who sees not with the eyes of the world, but with the eyes of heaven.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“despite our flaws, we can be used by our Heavenly Father to weave together His highest purposes. Sarah is the perfect illustration of that beautiful, complex truth.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“We sometimes think the size of our audience is in direct proportion to the impact we can have, but Mary didn’t run to the town square. She started within her own family circle, and that’s often our most important congregation, the people we love, those closest to us, because they get an up-close look at our faith and how we choose to live it in the most practical ways. This includes laundry and grocery runs and paying bills and cleaning up after the dog—the real nitty-gritty that tests our patience.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“God’s “power is made perfect in weakness,”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“Tragedy in the human realm isn’t always the result of God’s judgment, but it does always present an opportunity to show His glory.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“God’s love for every person reading this page or hearing these words is perfect and unstoppable. It is unbounded, unblemished, and unconditional. It doesn’t matter where we’ve been or what we’ve done, His love for us doesn’t dim. You don’t have to do a single thing to earn it, and no one can take it away.”
― Shannon Bream, The Love Stories of the Bible Speak: Biblical Lessons on Romance, Friendship, and Faith