Women of the Bible Quotes

“But it is heartening to realize that God accomplishes his purposes despite our frailties, our little faith, our entrenched self-reliance.”
― Ann Spangler, Women of the Bible: A One-year Devotional Study of Women in Scripture

“The Bible is so much more than a dry compilation of genealogies, prophecies, and laws. It is the story of the most important relationship in the world, the one between God and his people. The setting of this story moves quickly from Paradise to a fallen world and then culminates, after much foolishness and suffering, in heaven itself. It reveals what was, what is, and what will be. As the story unfolds, it exposes the nature of our deepest problems and the roots of our worst sufferings. Through its various characters, we recognize the tug-of-war that takes place in our own souls as we struggle to respond to God.”
― Ann Spangler, Women of the Bible: A One-Year Devotional Study

“Lord, sometimes I feel abandoned, as though no one understands or cares about me. Please show me that you really are near and that you see and hear everything that happens. Refresh me with your presence even when I am walking through a desert experience. And help me, in turn, to comfort others when they feel hopeless and alone. In Jesus' name. Amen.”
― Ann Spangler, Women of the Bible: A One-year Devotional Study of Women in Scripture

“Whether you are living in a wilderness of poverty or loneliness or sorrow, God's promises, love, and protection are just as available to you now as they were to Hagar.”
― Ann Spangler, Women of the Bible: A One-year Devotional Study of Women in Scripture

“Discontment is an insidious thing, trapping us into thinking that which is enough is longer enough, and that which is satisfying is no longer satisfying.”
― Ann Spangler, Women of the Bible: A One-Year Devotional Study of Women in Scripture

“Lord, you call me to live in the world without embracing the ways of the world. Help me to live in a way that preserves my freedom to follow you wherever and however you lead. If I should leave behind a monument, may it be a reminder to others of faith and not foolishness.”
― Ann Spangler, Women of the Bible: A One-Year Devotional Study

“When we are at our weakest, God is at his best, ready to step in and say to us as he said to Hagar, “Do not be afraid” (Genesis 21:17).”
― Ann Spangler, Women of the Bible: A One-year Devotional Study of Women in Scripture

“When you are at your lowest, on your knees before God's judgment, never forget that his grace is still at work. And that is truly amazing.”
― Ann Spangler, Women of the Bible: A One-year Devotional Study of Women in Scripture

“God's use of the ordinary to bring about the extraordinary is as much in evidence here in the early events of Exodus as anywhere in Scripture. His tendency to bring about his will through ordinary items, ordinary people, and ordinary events is no less at work today than it was in Jochebed's.”
― Ann Spangler, Women of the Bible: A One-Year Devotional Study of Women in Scripture

“From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. —JOHN 1:16”
― Ann Spangler, Women of the Bible: A One-year Devotional Study of Women in Scripture

“Recuerda que Dios tiene su propia agenda, y descansa en la seguridad de que él te ama y cumplirá las promesas que te hizo.”
― Ann Spangler, Mujeres de la Biblia: Un devocional de estudio para un ano sobre las mujeres de la Escritura