Unashamed Quotes

“Shame always steals joy and limits freedom. Shame binds us in chains that feel unbreakable to realities that seem unchangeable. Jesus frees you in the Spirit of the Lord.”
― Heather Davis Nelson, Unashamed: Healing Our Brokenness and Finding Freedom from Shame

“Shame tends to resist accepting forgiveness. It wants to think it needs to be earned, or that it has never done quite enough, or that the mistakes or sin or imperfection are too pervasive for forgiveness; therefore, I’m not worthy.”
― Heather Davis Nelson, Unashamed: Healing Our Brokenness and Finding Freedom from Shame

“Because any of us can fall (and we do), we are to respond to another’s fall into sin with compassion that seeks his restoration rather than seeking his punishment and exposure.”
― Heather Davis Nelson, Unashamed: Healing Our Brokenness and Finding Freedom from Shame

“Sin is destructive, but heaping additional stones of shame should not be part of the church’s response. It suggests that we don’t truly know the depths of sin in our own hearts if we can condemn someone else so easily.”
― Heather Davis Nelson, Unashamed: Healing Our Brokenness and Finding Freedom from Shame

“The love that parents show to their children is a reflection of God's mercy...Children need to experience their parents delight. Dan Allender”
― Heather Davis Nelson, Unashamed: Healing Our Brokenness and Finding Freedom from Shame

“If we don't identify our personal sense of shame before responding to our child, we run the risk of allowing our own shame to control the moment of discipline.”
― Heather Davis Nelson, Unashamed: Healing Our Brokenness and Finding Freedom from Shame

“Fighting against shame moves you out of your lonely bunker of one into vibrant community.”
― Heather Davis Nelson, Unashamed: Healing Our Brokenness and Finding Freedom from Shame

“The best way to fight evil is to proclaim the kingdom of light through our words and actions.”
― Heather Davis Nelson, Unashamed: Healing Our Brokenness and Finding Freedom from Shame

“Christ himself was tempted in every way as we are, yet he did not sin. So if Christ could be tempted, who am I to say that I am above any kind of temptation another brother or sister will face?”
― Heather Davis Nelson, Unashamed: Healing Our Brokenness and Finding Freedom from Shame