Aimee Byrd > Quotes

“Who is willing to suffer for a Savior they won't even trouble themselves to learn about?”
― Aimee Byrd, Theological Fitness: Why We Need a Fighting Faith

“There is no plateau in the Christian life. We are either growing closer to Christ's likeness or we are falling away.”
― Aimee Byrd, Theological Fitness: Why We Need a Fighting Faith

“Conversion is not merely a ticket out of hell. It is the beginning of a whole new life, not just an end to the old one.”
― Aimee Byrd, Housewife Theologian: How the Gospel Interrupts the Ordinary

“Just like a constant diet of fast food makes us flabby, so too a constant intake of social media to the neglect of books and thoughtful meditation will make our brains flabby. So if you find it difficult to read more than five pages at a time, or you find yourself falling asleep as soon as you crack open a book, that is a sign that you should be putting in the work that it takes to be an active reader.”
― Aimee Byrd, No Little Women: Equipping All Women in the Household of God

“We don’t find a command anywhere in Scripture for all women to submit to all men. We don’t find directions for women to function as masculinity affirmers. We find that men and women are called together in the same mission: eternal communion with the triune God.”
― Aimee Byrd, Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: How the Church Needs to Rediscover Her Purpose

“We can get so caught up in the struggle with sin that we can forget that it no longer has a reigning power over us. We need to be reminded that we are under the reign of grace.”
― Aimee Byrd, Housewife Theologian: How the Gospel Interrupts the Ordinary

“... imposing extrabiblical restrictions on all believers hinders spiritual growth and does not promote purity.”
― Aimee Byrd, Why Can't We Be Friends?: Avoidance Is Not Purity

“Is it possible that we misread appropriate feelings due to the overly sexualized messages we hear, don't know how to recognize or maturely handle them, and resist the intimacy that we could experience as brothers and sisters?”
― Aimee Byrd, Why Can't We Be Friends?: Avoidance Is Not Purity

“I see these unbiblical rules imposed on men and women as pickpocketing purity, stealing unearned virtue at the expense of another's dignity. Though I think that those who uphold the rules are the misdirected ones, wanting to exercise a virtue without noticing the positive work that they need to put in.”
― Aimee Byrd, Why Can't We Be Friends?: Avoidance Is Not Purity

“While it may seem safe to impose rules that separate us from ordinary encounters with the other sex, this isn't the virtue of purity. It is overly sexualizing of others. Rejecting impurity or sexual transgression should never lead to rejecting the value of another person.”
― Aimee Byrd, Why Can't We Be Friends?: Avoidance Is Not Purity

“Singlehood seems like a cruel judgement on someone's inability to land a mate, rather than a dignified status for a chaste person who is wholeheartedly committed to God.”
― Aimee Byrd, Why Can't We Be Friends?: Avoidance Is Not Purity

“No matter what our different circumstances and vocations may be, every woman is a theologian. We all have an understanding about who God is and what he has done. The question is whether or not our views are based on what he has revealed in his Word about himself. And yet many women are either turned off or intimidated by doctrine” (p. 53).”
― Aimee Byrd, No Little Women: Equipping All Women in the Household of God

“Think about your current afflictions or unmet desires. What do they serve? Do you really trust God? I mean really trust Him? The idol's best friend is fear. Fear always tags along because our enslavement to an idol attaches all our meaningfulness and value to it. When we're not idol-chasing, there is constant anxiety that we may lose or never attain that idol we are worshipping. But God's Word says, 'Be anxious for nothing....”
― Aimee Byrd, Housewife Theologian: How the Gospel Interrupts the Ordinary

“Purity isn't merely abstention. It isn't practiced by avoidance. Purity isn't just a physical status for a virgin, nor is it even the success of a faithful marriage. purity is preeminently about our communion with God -- a fountain that overflows into our other relationships.”
― Aimee Byrd

“In God's household, we have solidarity with one another in suffering, which reveals our true hope for the fruit of righteousness.”
― Aimee Byrd, Why Can't We Be Friends?: Avoidance Is Not Purity

“The Song explains spiritual things for spiritual people (1 Cor. 2:13). And it is enfleshed in man and woman, with all of nature joining in. Then all the other matters fall into place. In Jesus Christ, heaven and earth come together—he leaves his “mother’s house,” the heavenly realm, to cling to his bride and usher her into his inner chambers (Gen. 2:24).”
― Aimee Byrd, The Sexual Reformation: Restoring the Dignity and Personhood of Man and Woman

“Sometimes we get so invested in our favorite authors and teachers that we have trouble separating their personalities from the content of their teaching. How do you handle it when your favorite books or speakers are challenged by constructive criticism? Do you take it personally? Do you think you have any blind spots when it comes to reading with discernment? (p. 64).”
― Aimee Byrd, No Little Women: Equipping All Women in the Household of God

“Men learn a whole different aspect of brotherhood when they have sisters. Likewise, women cannot get a complete picture of what it means to be a sister without having brothers.”
― Aimee Byrd, Why Can't We Be Friends?: Avoidance Is Not Purity

“Are the women in your church the only ones learning about submission? Or is submission taught, as Andrew Bartlett has helpfully defined it, as “the heart of Christ-centered gospel living”.”
― Aimee Byrd, Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Video Study: How the Church Needs to Rediscover Her Purpose

“It's hard to think of a future when our minds will be free from sinful thoughts, our hearts will long only for righteousness, and our bodies will serve God with perfect stewardship. It sounds too good to be true. But it is true!”
― Aimee Byrd, Why Can't We Be Friends?: Avoidance Is Not Purity

“Women especially play a huge role in showing the face of Christianity to the watching world.”
― Aimee Byrd, Housewife Theologian: How the Gospel Interrupts the Ordinary

“It's easy to confuse legitimate desires for intimacy, closeness, and meaningfulness in our friendships with illegitimate romantic notions -- even if only in our thoughts.”
― Aimee Byrd, Why Can't We Be Friends?: Avoidance Is Not Purity

“Good books last longer than blog posts, which fade into cyberspace, hoping that a Google search will bring them to light again one day. And they shape a higher purpose in shaping a reader....Read books!”
― Aimee Byrd

“Our American do-it-yourself way of thinking may make it more difficult to understand the gift of righteousness.”
― Aimee Byrd, Housewife Theologian: How the Gospel Interrupts the Ordinary

“To get to Adam, Satan went after a target of value to him. It is no surprise, then, that he is still relentless in trying to deceive Christ’s bride, the church, through false teachers, ill-placed priorities, felt needs, fear tactics, and coping mechanisms, to divert them from resting in Christ and in God’s wisdom, provision, and sovereignty” (p. 26).”
― Aimee Byrd, No Little Women: Equipping All Women in the Household of God

“Yet in Scripture we see Jesus accept invitations into women's homes, talk with women unaccompanied by a chaperone, travel with women, let a woman show affection for him, ask a woman for a drink and engage with her in theological discussion in the middle of the day where everyone could see, and trust women to be the first heralds of the gospel in an age when a woman's testimony was discounted. People whispered. They questioned his credibility because of his interactions with these women.”
― Aimee Byrd, Why Can't We Be Friends?: Avoidance Is Not Purity

“There's nothing to hide when you treat people with common decency and respect.”
― Aimee Byrd, Why Can't We Be Friends?: Avoidance Is Not Purity

“Just as children are most often unaware of their own helplessness and much of their sinful behavior, we tend to view ourselves in a much better condition spiritually than we really are. This is another reason why it is so important for us to be in God's Word. It s there that we see his holiness and our sin.”
― Aimee Byrd, Housewife Theologian: How the Gospel Interrupts the Ordinary

“If we take women seriously, we will want them to be good teachers of the Word. So often, the theology of women such as these is not critiqued because we don’t want to hurt feelings. Somehow it comes off as not nice to critique a woman’s teaching. Well, that isn’t taking women seriously, either. It is not insulting to point out error. What is unloving is giving a teacher license to teach falsely because you like her personality, because you want to believe that it’s true, or, worse, because you don’t want to engage critically with a woman. Teachers will be accountable before God for what they say, so we should want to correct them.”
― Aimee Byrd, No Little Women: Equipping All Women in the Household of God

“Our evangelical culture is one that promotes tolerance and love. But it isn’t loving to tolerate bad teaching in the church. Love requires the work of guarding the Word of the One who is truly loving. He loves us enough to be direct about holiness, sin, and the way to everlasting life. We have a responsibility to discern the teaching of those who eagerly wish to disciple others (p. 87).”
― Aimee Byrd, No Little Women: Equipping All Women in the Household of God