True Woman 101 Quotes

“What exactly is a True Woman? She is, quite simply, a woman who is being molded and shaped according to God’s design. She’s a woman who loves Jesus and whose life is grounded in, tethered to, and enabled by Christ and His gospel. As a result, she is serious about bringing her thoughts and actions in line with what the Bible says about who she is and how she ought to live. She is a woman who rejects the world’s pattern for womanhood, and gladly wears God’s designer label instead.”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“And since that fateful day, “I’ll do it my way” has been the prideful inclination of every man and woman who has ever lived. We mess up our lives by refusing to accept God’s boundaries. We mess them up more by trying to cover the resulting problem with our own flimsy, ridiculous efforts. Instead of humbly submitting to God, we stubbornly refuse to believe that He knows better. We are literally “hell-bent” to do it our own way.”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“Your womanhood is ultimately not about you. It’s about displaying the glory of God and His powerful redemptive plan.”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“Trusting the wisdom of our good, loving heavenly Father is safer and far more attractive than trusting Satan’s deceptive sales pitch and stepping out on our own.”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“The Bible boils it down for us. It says that if we listen to God, we will go wise. But if we don’t listen to Him, we will go wild. And the consequence of increased wildness is increased pain and dysfunction. You only have to look at the history of feminism to see that this is the case. Many feminists had the best of intentions. At the core, they desired to find a solution to the age-old problem of sin and the pain of womanhood. But when they moved away from God’s design instead of moving toward it, they exacerbated the very problem they were trying to solve.”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“When I (Nancy) read Proverbs 7, in my mind’s eye I see women I know who, though they are “churched” and consider themselves to be believers, have made choices that are more consistent with the world’s way of thinking than with the Word of God. I think of a married woman I spoke with who was in an adulterous relationship with a colleague at the Christian ministry where she worked. Or the mother of six children who wrote me a note at a conference where I spoke, sharing that she was spending twelve to eighteen hours a day online, and was considering leaving her family for a man she had met on the Internet. I think of women who have been influenced by the world’s model of womanhood. They lack discernment and discretion; they see nothing wrong with being flirtatious, using suggestive or coarse language, carrying on covert Facebook exchanges with old boyfriends, wearing clothing that exposes or emphasizes private parts of the body, or numerous other “wild” patterns. In some cases, they are ignorant or naïve of what the Bible teaches. In other cases, they are more interested in fitting into the world than in honoring and reflecting the Lord. Some of them have already shipwrecked their lives and the lives of others; others may be well on the path to doing so. “HER FEET GO DOWN TO DEATH; HER STEPS FOLLOW THE PATH TO SHEOL; SHE DOES NOT PONDER THE PATH OF LIFE; HER WAYS WANDER, AND SHE DOES NOT KNOW IT.” Proverbs 5:5–6”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“Did feminism identify some valid problems? Yes. Did it propose some helpful changes? It likely did. Can feminism be embraced along with our Christian faith? Absolutely not. Why not? Because it introduces a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) distortion into the way we approach gender and male-female relationships. It contains truth, but it also contains some powerful and destructive lies. And in so doing, it strikes at the very image of God and at an important earthly picture He chose to display the redemptive story. At its core, feminist philosophy is antithetical to the gospel.”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“Eve took the bite. But instead of the promised benefits, she found herself with a mouthful of distasteful consequences—guilt, fear, and alienation. The fellowship she had enjoyed with God and her husband was broken. Paradise had been lost.”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“God had already told Adam and Eve what was right and what was wrong. But Satan said, in essence, “That’s his opinion; you’re entitled to your own opinion—you can make your own decisions about what is right and wrong.”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“makes Satan’s offers so alluring and so deceptive is that they look so right. The Devil is in the business of making sin look harmless, attractive, and promising. The problem is that Eve didn’t stop to evaluate what was really happening. She didn’t take the time to discern truth from error. She didn’t stop to consider the cost and the consequences of what she was about to do.”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“Over and over again, the Scripture teaches that God’s laws are for our good and our protection and that obedience brings blessing. But Satan places in our minds the idea that God’s laws are burdensome, unreasonable, and unfair, and that if we obey Him, we will be miserable. He tempts us to question God’s wisdom.”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“The purpose of woman helping man isn’t about exalting the man. It’s really not about him (or her) at all. Her help contributes to the both of them achieving a greater, nobler eternal purpose that is far bigger and more significant than their own existence. She labors and serves alongside him for the same purpose for which he labors and serves. And what is that? The glory of God. Woman helps man achieve the purpose of exalting and displaying the jaw-dropping magnificence of the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“Woman helps man glorify God in a way he could not do if she did not exist.”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“The Lord created His girls to have responsive spirits. Women are responders. Responding is in our nature. We will either respond to good or we will respond to evil. We will either respond to truth or be swayed by lies. If we don’t establish the practice of receiving and responding to God’s Word, we will be more vulnerable to be receptive and responsive to the wrong kinds of men, ideas, or counsel.”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“The New Testament uses a similar word—“weaker”—to reinforce that women are the softer, more vulnerable ones. This does not at all imply that women are inferior to men. However, women are physically and emotionally more tender, and are thus more susceptible to being hurt. According to 1 Peter 3:7, God expects men to honor them for this beautiful feminine trait. He warns men not to treat women like “one of the guys.” God expects men to handle women like Swarovski crystal, and not like Bridgestone tires!”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“Every time we look at each other or talk to each other as men and women, we should remember that the person we are talking to is a creature of God who is more like God than anything else in the universe, and men and women share that status equally.1”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“Men were created to reflect the strength, love, and self-sacrifice of Christ. Women were created to reflect the responsiveness, grace, and beauty of the bride He redeemed. And marriage was created to reflect the covenant union of Christ and His bride.”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“God want us to put Him on display, so that everyone who looks at us sees the beauty of His image. It’s a profound honor and responsibility to bear the image of God.”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“As obvious as it may be that it’s important to follow the designer’s directions when it comes to assembling shelves, it’s a point so many women (and men) miss when it comes to “assembling” their lives and relationships. The fact is, any time we fail to consult the Designer and follow the directions He has provided, we’re going to end up with a mess!”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“Do you know what the word “domestic” means? The heart of domesticity is a devotion to home life. It’s having a heart for the home.”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“In a healthy relationship, an engaged woman is devoted to her fiancé. She’s enthralled with him. She constantly thinks about him, and wants to please him. She focuses on getting ready for their wedding and their future together. And she doesn’t consider dating other guys! True Womanhood means having this same type of bridelike devotion to Christ, our Betrothed.”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“No matter how greatly sin has damaged your life … no matter how many dull, ugly layers of paint and veneer you may have applied in an unsuccessful attempt to cover the cracks … no matter if the colors are faded or the picture is so obscured that you can barely see the original … God is in the restoration business. He is a great, redeeming God who is making all things new, through the work of Christ on our behalf. His divine power and love can re-create and restore your life to its original design—that beautiful work of art intended to display the loveliness of Christ!”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“In October 2009, Time magazine devoted an entire issue to “The State of the American Woman.” One writer pointed out that, ironically, as women have gained more education, more economic independence, more power, and more freedom, they have become less and less happy. According to evidence gathered by numerous surveys, they are unhappier now than when the feminist movement set about to solve the problem of women’s unhappiness.7 Clearly, the new model of womanhood is even less fulfilling than the old one was. The solution isn’t to try to rewind the clock to the 1950s, and squeeze women back into that culture’s “Leave It to Beaver” stereotype. No. The solution—the biblical solution—is to embrace the Word of God, and ask Him to help us figure out how to live out His divine design in this culture. Truly “smart girls” know that the place to get more know-how, freedom, and joy is in a relationship with Christ—the One “in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Col. 2:3).”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“The fact is, “wise girls get more” of what really matters for this life and the next!”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“Feminism is based on the wrong premise. It assumes that “patriarchy” is the ultimate cause of woman’s pain. It proposes the wrong solution. It says that women have the right, the knowledge, and the power to redefine and rectify the male-female relationship. It’s fueled by the wrong attitude. It encourages anger, bitterness, resentment, self-reliance, independence, arrogance, and a pitting of woman against man. It exalts the wrong values. Power, prestige, personal attainment, and financial gain are exalted over service, sacrifice, and humility. Manhood is devalued. Morality is devalued. Marriage is devalued. Motherhood is devalued. In sum, feminism promotes ways of thinking that stand in direct opposition to the Word of God and to the beauty of His created order.”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“The problem in the male-female relationship isn’t men. It’s sin. And sin is something that affects women just as much as it affects men. Men and women may sin in different ways, but the truth of the matter is that ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Women are not innocent. Women are sinners. Women can’t fix sin. So we can’t fix men. And we can’t fix the male-female relationship. The truth is we can’t even fix ourselves! (But don’t despair … we’ll soon turn our attention to Someone who can!)”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“Have you noticed that Satan’s tactics really haven’t changed? He tempts us to fall for the idea that our lives will be better when we take matters into our own hands and decide for ourselves how we want to live. He tries to get us to leave God out of the equation and to focus on our rights, our power, and our potential. He wants us to have a “do it myself,” independent spirit that plays the blame game, and sets men up as the enemy; or a needy spirit that sets men up as god, and turns to them to fill the relational vacuum in our hearts.”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“The Lord does not want woman to function independent of man. Nor does He want woman to be unhealthily dependent on man, looking to him to meet all her needs. He wants male and female to be interdependent on one another—to value each other, and be mutually influenced, supported, and helped by one another. The Lord wants the marriage relationship—and the relationship between males and females in general—to showcase the kinship, commitment, unity, communion, authenticity, and purity that are the hallmark of His relationships.”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood

“It’s important to note that interdependence differs from what is sometimes called “codependence”—that is, an unhealthy relationship in which an individual’s sense of identity and worth is wrapped up in the other person.”
― Mary A. Kassian, True Woman 101: Divine Design: An Eight-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood