Life's Great Dare Quotes

“What if transformation wasn't about God making me more perfect so he could love me more, but instead was about changing me so I could experience his love more perfectly?”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“The presence of pain does not mean the absence of God.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“Hoping for something to change in the icy parts of our lives is not foolish. Springtime does come, and buds always bloom.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

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― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“But here’s what I’m learning: when that small, tender voice stirs within me, it’s calling me on an adventure. I’m being invited to be vulnerable and surrender to a plan that is far greater than one I could ever create for myself. I’m being asked to let go of my control, and trust that I’ll be okay, even if I don’t know how it will all turn out. Surrendering to transformation requires I open up my hands with palms ready to receive instead of living life with fists tightly clenched around things that give me the illusion I have control.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“Pursuing a full, abundant life feels incredibly risky. Being open to transformation is an invitation for someone else to take the lead, and for us to give up the lives we know for something new.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“It’s as if he knows there is a better version of my life waiting to be uncovered, a life with more love and less pain, more joy and less fear, more peace and less anxiety.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“God has one direction, one motivation, one gear, one speed and one purpose: LOVE.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“Finding true freedom is not climbing the ladder up out of our troubled lives; it's letting God climb right into those places.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“God's method is not to retaliate. It's to rescue.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“Listen to the quite voice within you urging you out of your comfort zone, into your growth zone, so you can live in the free zone.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“The beautiful freedom we were designed to experience comes in an intimate and organic friendship with God.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“We are made to love and be loved. It's the Kingdom economy of abundance. Love always leads to more love.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“Consider this: some things must die to make room for something new. Fear must die to make room for joy.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“The more we learn about the Kingdom of God and the abundant life, the more we realize that it's worth the sacrifice, because the treasure always leads to the deepest kind of freedom we crave.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“When I seek the sweet I find everything else falls into place.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“Give generously. Love liberally. Care creativity.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“Ironically, radical dependence on God feels like beautiful freedom.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“Rebirth is the finish line for death and the starting line for freedom and love. On your marks. Get set. Go!”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“Freedom is light. It faces forward and makes you want to do the happy dance!”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“While we wait for the next season , the better season to come - remember there is a Deep Root who grounds us.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“Death. It's dark, but it's the hinge that swings open to bright light and new life.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“Lame stories can be made grand, tired characters can turn heroic, and hopeless, stale tales can shine bright with new life.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“The promise of re-birth is the promise to bust everything wide open!”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“Love always leads to more love.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“God is Love. And Love is all around and everywhere. We are drenched in it.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“When I trust that I am loved, I know that I am enough. When I know that I am enough, I feel secure. When I feel secure, I am able to give and receive more love. It's a beautiful cycle. Peace begets more peace. Joy begets more joy. Love begets for love. And the fullness of love is the fullness of life.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life

“God's end game is for you and me to be perfectly free: completely and utterly able to live in the most intimate, unencumbered union with him. The starting point of the transformed life is God's deep love for us. The destination is the same - more love for ourselves, for others, and for God.”
― Christa Hesselink, Life's Great Dare: Risking It All for the Abundant Life