Olivia

“Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had never known a man like this Man—there never has been another. A prophet and teacher who never nagged at them, never flattered or coaxed or patronized; who never made arch jokes about them, never treated them as “The women, God help us!” or “The ladies, God bless them!”; who rebuked without querulousness and praised without condescension; who took their questions and arguments seriously; who never mapped out their sphere for them, never urged them to be feminine or jeered at them for being female; who had no axe to grind and no uneasy male dignity to defend; who took them as he found them and was completely unselfconscious. There is no act, no sermon, no parable in the whole Gospel that borrows its pungency from female perversity; nobody could guess from the words and deeds of Jesus that there was anything “funny” about woman’s nature. Dorothy Day, Catholic social activist and journalist”
― Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women

“Miracles sometimes look like a kapow! lightning-strike revelation; and sometimes miracles look like showing up for your counseling appointments.”
― Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women

“People want black-and-white answers, but Scripture is rainbow arch across a stormy sky.”
― Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: God's Radical Notion that Women Are People Too

“Sometimes miracles look like instant healing; and other times, miracles look like medication and patience and discipline.”
― Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women