Lioness Arising Quotes

“You know you are with true friends when they lift, encourage, correct, and then spur you on.”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World

“God is not looking for people who act like Christians. He wants us to be Christians! The word Christian means “anointed or Christlike one.” Jesus did not go around “being good”; he went around “doing good” and releasing all who were oppressed. What has he anointed you to do?”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World

“Because of fear, I had forfeited strength, life, and beauty. I had lost a sense of my true self, and with that loss so much of what God wanted for me was yet unrealized.”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World

“Live what is within you out loud.”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World

“We are meek in the way we follow and fierce in the way we fight. In this manner, gentle and fierce meet and are comfortable.”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World

“God would never have granted women a voice if he intended for them to remain silent. God knew that Adam, and our world, would need the voice and influence of women.”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World

“If ever there comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known. MATTHEW ARNOLD, NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH POET AND PHILOSOPHER”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World

“I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works. (Psalm 139:14, NKJV)”
― 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

“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

“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves;    ensure justice for those being crushed. Yes, speak up for the poor and helpless,    and see that they get justice. (Proverbs 31:8–9, NLT)”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World

“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World

“There is still too much stuff in you that God needs to work out … You will not be free by October.”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World

“You were not created to be subservient; you are a joint heir. Women are God-answers. The addition of women’s voices increases the educational opportunity for all children, stimulates the economy, and apparently decreases the risk of terrorism”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World

“Though she never moved, she was more alive than I. In the light of her beauty and strength, I realized what I had lost. Because of fear, I had forfeited strength, life, and beauty. I had lost a sense of my true self, and with that loss so much of what God wanted for me was yet unrealized.”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World

“The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. —MARGARET MEAD”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World