{"author":"Stasi Eldredge","author_id":"Stasi+Eldredge","total_quotes":20,"quotes":[{"text":"We want to be women who advance. The kingdom of God is advancing, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. Don't you want to advance along with it? Don't you want to help it to advance? And don't you want to advance into the deeper realms of the heart of God? Advance into more healing, more deliverance, more intimacy, more life? Fear makes us retreat. Love causes it to advance.","author":"Stasi Eldredge","tags":["advancing","fear","hell","kingdom-of-god","life","love"],"id":1475,"author_id":"Stasi+Eldredge"},{"text":"He made you you—on purpose. You are the only you—ever. Becoming ourselves means we are actively cooperating with God's intention for our lives, not fighting him or ourselves. He looks at us with pleasure and with mercy, and he wants us to look at ourselves with pleasure and mercy too!","author":"Stasi Eldredge","tags":["being-yourself","god-s-purpose","mercy","pleasure","you","your-purpose"],"id":12223,"author_id":"Stasi+Eldredge"},{"text":"We need to increasingly live from the fullness of our whole hearts in order to become who we are meant to be and play the significant role that is ours to play. We want to be awake and alert. We want to be women who live their lives on purpose.","author":"Stasi Eldredge","tags":["being-myself","challenge","inspirational","living","living-on-purpose"],"id":21515,"author_id":"Stasi+Eldredge"},{"text":"There is no shame here. The places where we still fear are simply the places we have yet to fully receive God’s love. Only by his grace and in his love can we let our fear go. Let go and receive. Receive his dreams. Receive his love. It is an exchange of fear for desire. It is an exchange of death for life. There is no fear in love. And I can tell you this with certainty: God does not want you to live in fear. And he does want you to live. Don’t be afraid. Just believe.","author":"Stasi Eldredge","tags":["death","fear","freedom","god-s-desires","grace","life","love"],"id":62122,"author_id":"Stasi+Eldredge"},{"text":"Fear is a wet blanket that smothers the fiery passion God deposited in your heart when he formed you. Fear freezes us into inaction. Frozen ideas, frozen souls, frozen bodies can't move, can't dream, can't risk, can't love, and can't live. Fear chains us.","author":"Stasi Eldredge","tags":["chains","fear","freedom","frozen","passion"],"id":75198,"author_id":"Stasi+Eldredge"},{"text":"A mother's heart is a vast and glorious thing. My mother's heart was expansive, having been enlarged by suffering and years of clinging to Jesus while being misunderstood, dismissed, and judged by those she loved most. Me included. It had cost her to love, had cost her much to mother. It always does. But she would tell you that it's worth it, that there is no other way.","author":"Stasi Eldredge","tags":["agape","love","truth"],"id":81677,"author_id":"Stasi+Eldredge"},{"text":"It's good to dream. We can't out-give God. We can't out-love him, and we can't out-dream him.","author":"Stasi Eldredge","tags":["desires","dreaming","dreams","god"],"id":117060,"author_id":"Stasi+Eldredge"},{"text":"The vast desire and capacity a woman has for intimate relationships tells us of God's vast desire and capacity for intimate relationships. In fact, this may be The most important thing we ever learn about God--the He yearns for relationship with us. 'Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God' (John 17:3). The whole story of the Bible is a love story between God and His people. He yearns for us. He cares. He has a tender heart.","author":"Stasi Eldredge","tags":["god","love","relationships"],"id":126461,"author_id":"Stasi+Eldredge"},{"text":"You see, women have been essential to every great move of God. Yes, Moses led the Isaelites out of Egypt, but only after his mother risked her life to save him! Closer to our time, Clara Barton was instrumental in starting the Red Cross. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin put fire into people's heart to end slavery in the United States. Rosa Parks kicked the Civil Rights movement into gear with her quiet act of courage. Eunice Kennedy Shriver created the Special Olympics. Mother Teresa inspired the world by bringing love to countless thought unlovable. And millions of other women quietly change the world every day by bringing the love of God to those around them.","author":"Stasi Eldredge","tags":["christian","religion","spritual","women"],"id":153276,"author_id":"Stasi+Eldredge"},{"text":"We desire to possess a beauty that is worth pursuing, worth fighting for, a beauty that is core to who we truly are. We want beauty that can be seen; beauty that can be felt; beauty that affects others; a beauty all our own to unveil.","author":"Stasi Eldredge","tags":["beauty","christian","women"],"id":176221,"author_id":"Stasi+Eldredge"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}