Brenda Yoder > Brenda's Quotes

“Speak out for those who cannot speak”—who in the church today realizes that this is the very least that the Bible requires of us?”
― Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

“May God make his Word find a hearing in all the world.”
― Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

“Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God—the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God.”
― Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

“being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God’s will:”
― Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

“For unless love becomes tenderness—the connective tissue of love—it never becomes transformational. The tender doesn’t happen tomorrow . . . only now.”
― Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship