Sarah

“It is scary to be who you’re meant to be. It doesn’t feel easy because it’s not. But we were made for this. Like today’s scripture says, we have holy work. Why be brave? Because when we’re brave enough to share the God stories in our lives, it changes the people around us. It changes us to share them.”
― Annie F. Downs, 100 Days to Brave: Devotions for Unlocking Your Most Courageous Self

“If you are not praying the type of prayers that scare you, your prayers are certainly not frightening our enemy.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“These women are talented and gifted, fearless yet honoring, connected yet self-contained, present yet far reaching, compassionate yet fierce, pure but not naive, strong and gentle, simple yet highly strategic.”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World

“Strength is given us for service, not to convey status (see Romans 15:2). I wonder how much trouble would be averted in the world at large if everyone knew and adhered to this principle. What if we knew that our strength was to serve the weak, fearful, or timid? It would all be good!”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World