The Women of the Bible Speak Quotes

“The family of God is not built on blood, but on choice—God’s adoption of us, which we have done nothing to deserve, but also our decision to choose God.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“Once you have looked into the eyes of God and seen Him looking back at you, even the impossible can seem doable.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“Though His power was clearly the source of her healing, Jesus identified her faith as having activated her cure.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“bring”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“hope. Let this be a lesson for us, to step in and lift up those around us who are suffering.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“They are, on the whole, neither fully good nor completely bad people, but simply people, in all their messy and uncomfortable humanity. And it’s when we can see them in their full humanity that God can teach us something about ourselves.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“But as sometimes happens when we stop trusting God’s plan and go our own way, things went terribly wrong.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“Tragedy in the human realm isn’t always the result of God’s judgment, but it does always present an opportunity to show His glory.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“We sometimes think the size of our audience is in direct proportion to the impact we can have, but Mary didn’t run to the town square. She started within her own family circle, and that’s often our most important congregation, the people we love, those closest to us, because they get an up-close look at our faith and how we choose to live it in the most practical ways. This includes laundry and grocery runs and paying bills and cleaning up after the dog—the real nitty-gritty that tests our patience.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“The trouble comes when we become overly focused on all the things we can do for God, rather than on spending time and being in communion with Him.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“There is an ancient Jewish tradition that says that to publicly shame another person is the same as committing murder because, regardless of your reasons, you have murdered that person’s reputation forever.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.” (Genesis 16:13)”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“despite our flaws, we can be used by our Heavenly Father to weave together His highest purposes. Sarah is the perfect illustration of that beautiful, complex truth.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“God’s “power is made perfect in weakness,”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“like Esther at times in our walk with God.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“The “God Who Sees” is the God who sees not with the eyes of the world, but with the eyes of heaven.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“After more than a decade of suffering, bad news, and financial ruin, she was finally free, healed in an instant—all because she dared reach out to Him for help when every earthly avenue had ended in nothing but loss and despair.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak

“In fear, rather than confidence, we refuse to take the risk of trusting God, to take Him at His unfailing word.”
― Shannon Bream, The Women of the Bible Speak