Top 100 Jen Hatmaker Quotes
#2. Mostly good is enough. Mostly good produces healthy kids who know they are valued and either forget the other parts or turn them into funny stories.
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#3. If it isn't also true for a poor single Christian mom in Haiti, it isn't true.
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#4. Growing up means curbing appetites, shifting from "me" to "we," understanding private choices have social consequences and public outcomes.
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#5. Thank you, Caillou, for having a nonphonetic title so my son cannot look you up on Netflix.
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#6. Thank you for inviting me into this good thing of yours. It is as extraordinary as you are. But any new yes I give means a no to my family and sanity. Please accept my sincere regrets and count on my prayers,
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#7. When Jesus said to "love your neighbor as yourself," I don't think He meant judgmentally; but that is exactly how we treat our own souls, so it bleeds out to others.
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#8. When God shook Israel awake from her violent slumber, He said, "Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy" (Ezekiel 16:49, emphasis added).
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#9. If people around me aren't moved by my Christ or my church, then I must be doing a miserable job of representing them both.
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#10. If we all raised others up instead of raising ourselves a little higher, there would be few needs left on earth.
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#11. If the kingdom of God belongs to the poor, the bottom dwellers, then rich American Christians are going to have the hardest time finding it.
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#12. Love God, love people. Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly. Treat people as you want to be treated. If you want to be great, be a servant.
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#13. I seek only friends who bleed and sweat and laugh and cry. Don't fear your humanity; it is your best offering.
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#14. Jesus operates beyond the tidy boundaries of good behavior. Rather than simply enforce His rules, we should show our kids His kingdom. That's where they'll discover a Savior to fall in love with. Out where life is messy and relationships are complicated. Where
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#15. Instead of waiting for community, provide it, and you'll end up with it anyway.
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#16. don't quite know how to explain Jesus' presence - intense and terrifying and gentle at the exact same time.
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#17. While the richest people on earth pray to get richer, the rest of the world begs for intervention with their faces pressed to the window, watching us drink our coffee, unruffled by their suffering.
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#18. We should not cushion every blow. This is life. Learning to deal with struggle and to develop responsibility is crucial. A good parent prepares the child for the path, not the path for the child. We can still demonstrate gentle and attached parenting without raising children who melt on a warm day.
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#19. A worthy life involves loving as loved folks do, sharing the ridiculous mercy God spoiled us with first. (It really is ridiculous.) It means restoring people, in ordinary conversations and regular encounters. A worthy life means showing up when showing up is the only thing to do.
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#20. In so many ways I am the opposite of Jesus' lifestyle. This keeps me up at night. I can't have authentic communion with Him while mired in the trappings He begged me to avoid.
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#21. Could the highest level of "right theology" involve loving God and people like Jesus suggested?
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#22. We cannot think our way into a new kind of living. We must live our way into a new kind of thinking.
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#23. nothing hurts worse or steals more joy than broken relationships. We can heal and hurt each other, and we do.
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#24. Balance. It's like a unicorn; we've heard about it, everyone talks about it and makes airbrushed T-shirts celebrating it, it seems super rad, but we haven't actually seen one. I'm beginning to think it isn't a thing.
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#25. We have this one life to offer; there is no second chance.
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#26. We "love" people the way we "love" ourselves, and if we are not good enough, then no one is.
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#27. Ironically, we practically have to be sainted to get through the adoption process, but any fool can spawn and have a baby, tra la la.
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#28. We are not promised a pain-free life but are given the tools to survive: God and people. It is enough.
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#29. There is a clear correlation between how we treat each other and how a watching world will feel about Jesus. What should our neighbors deduce from our loving-kindness toward one another? One, that we obviously belong to Jesus, because what other explanation exists for such beautiful community?
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#30. And as it turns out, as soon as we are willing to be the last, we actually become first. When we admit we are least, we feel like the greatest. And when we lose our lives, we find it all . . . all the love, all the life, all the thrill, all the fulfillment.
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#31. There are only 24 hours in a day. We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.
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#32. Ah, marriage. The kind of union we have affects our children infinitely more than the schools we put them in, the activities we sign them up for, or the church we take them to. Our kids are learning relational habits by osmosis, and statistics say they'll likely imitate what they witness at home.
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#33. Leaving is hard, even when a great adventure awaits you.
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#34. While my stuff is decreasing, what matters is increasing in equal measure.
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#35. Ignorant intervention is absolutely a contributing factor to cycles of oppression. This
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#36. I dream of a church that is once again called great, even by our skeptics, because our works of mercy cannot be denied.
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#37. Our primary defaults are exhaustion and guilt. Meanwhile, we have beautiful lives begging to be really lived, really enjoyed, really applauded
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#38. prestige, and possessions are the three things that prevent us from recognizing and receiving the reign of God. . . .
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#39. All due respect to the Resurrection, but two-becoming-one might be the greatest miracle ever.
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#40. We've invented a thousand shades of gray, devising a comfortable Christian existence we can all live with - super awesome, except the Bible doesn't support it. According to Scripture, no real disciple serves God while addicted to the dollar. There
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#41. When we impose unrealistic expectations on ourselves, it's natural to force them on everyone else.
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#42. Guilt is not Jesus' medium. He is battling for global redemption right now; His objective hardly includes huddling in the corner with us, rehashing our shame again. He finished that discussion on the cross. Plus, there's no time for that.
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#43. It's not magic; it's hard work by vested people who share a vision for God's kingdom in their city. An influential church is nothing more than a bunch of believers who get in the game and live on mission.
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#44. But God will span the universe to meet the believer who is real. He'd take an honest mess over a pretty lie any day.
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#45. A good parent prepares the child for the path, not the path for the child.
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#46. God does not change, but He uses change - to change us. He sends us on journeys that bring us to the end of ourselves. We often feel out of control, yet if we embrace His leading, we may find ourselves on the ride of our lives.
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#47. There is no time limit, no statute of limitations. Sharing our lives with dear people to win them to Jesus is the substance of Christianity, the delightful work we've been commissioned to.
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#48. Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory.
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#49. I choose you and I would choose you all over again. As Jane Eyre said of her Mr. Rochester, "I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blessed - blessed beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine."1
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#50. When we realize we can stop being Jesus defenders, we can start being Jesus representatives .
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#51. The day I am unaware of my privileges and unmoved by my greed is the day something has to change.
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#52. ...when the exhaustive exegesis of God's Word doesn't create people transformed into the image of Jesus, we have missed the forest for the trees.
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#53. church-planting team is representative of the culture, not a group of paid professionals or full-time ministers.
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#54. It is not our responsibility to fix every mess. If someone steps onto the scary ledge of truth, it is enough to acknowledge her courage and make this promise: I am here with you as your friend...
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#55. For the first time in our lives, we weren't trying to create our own opportunities; we were simply trying to respond to the Spirit's leading.
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#56. If anyone has made you feel invisible or less-than, write a new narrative on your heart.
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#57. Loved people forgive and encourage, serve and uplift, because they are precious to someone.
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#58. Unattended hurt, anger, and bitterness can destroy even the best marriage. Lean honestly into every hard place, each tender spot, because truthfulness hurts for a minute but silence is the kill shot.
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#59. Theology very naturally follows belief, but belief very rarely follows judgment.
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#60. mail-outs. As missionaries have always understood, the key is to study the culture you are passionate about reaching and submerge into that space with respect and love.
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#61. You are good at something for a reason. God designed you this way, on purpose. It isn't fake or a fluke or small. These are the mind and heart and hands and voice you've been given, so use them.
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#62. Though I believe math is a tool of the Enemy, I learned enough to know that to accurately find the sum, you add up all the parts.
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#63. your brain resembles the bottom of your purse: lost
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#64. Many believers get together to discuss a great book and mistakenly call it Bible study. That is, in fact, a book club with a spiritual theme.
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#65. I have a couple of long, funky necklaces I enjoy, some chunky rings, a few big bracelets to cover my wrist tattoo when I'm speaking at First (fill-in-the-denomination) Church, USA.
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#66. occurs, it means we can see through your pants. It's too
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#67. It started as a selfish act and has turned into a way of life. I can't stand to watch someone throw anything away that belongs in my green bin.
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#68. It is not your responsibility to explain what God is doing with your life. He has not provided enough information to figure it out. Instead, you are asked to turn loose and let God be God. Therein lies the secret to the "peace that transcends understanding.
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#69. Just drop some onion and garlic in olive oil, and your day improves exponentially.
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#70. Annual U.S. spending on cosmetics: $8 billion Basic education for all global children: $6 billion Annual U.S. and European spending on perfume: $12 billion Clean water for all global citizens $9 billion
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#71. What makes the gospel good news isn't the concept, but the real-life person who has been changed by it.[90]
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#72. Once we belong to Him, we know where to look for sweet communion,
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#73. I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.
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#74. Jesus, may there be less of me and my junk and more of You and Your kingdom." I will reduce, so He can increase.
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#75. It isn't our responsibility to defend our values and prioritize our message over our posture. We inherited a kingdom that cannot be shaken; we are an unthreatened people. God will stay on His throne without our rigorous defense.
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#76. My people are crumbling and dying and starving, and you're blessing blessed people and serving the saved.
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#77. Honestly, I love Jesus but sometimes His followers give me a migraine.
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#78. Our kids are the first generation in the history of America that has a shorter life span than their parents.
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#79. A fast is not necessarily something we offer God, but it assists us in offering ourselves
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#80. In all our efforts, if we are not about people, our labors aren't really about Jesus but about us.
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#81. What is good for the Kingdom is good for us all.
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#82. Why is it so exhausting to uphold someone's heavy, inconvenient burden? Why are we spent from shouldering someone's grief or being an armor bearer? Why is it that lifting someone out of his or her rubble leaves us breathless? Because we are the body of Christ, broken and poured out, just as He was.
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#83. the only thing fear yields is one dormant gift in a shallow grave.
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#84. Loneliness can be a prison, but we have keys. You needn't wait for someone to open the bars. If you can make a pot of chili and use a cell phone, then you can create community.
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#85. Thank you, Facebook Quizzes, for helping me identify my Disney princess spirit, my old-person name, my mental disorder, and the color of my soul. All in one evening. Best, Ariel Harriet Schizophrenic Mauve.
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#86. In a culture that elevates beauty and style, the Christian community is at genuine risk fordistraction, even deception. What do we truly admire in our leaders? Are we nodifferent from secular population, drawn tocharisma and style above substance and i tegrity?
I hope not.
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#87. People will take as much as you will give them, not because they are terrible humans, but because they only want this one slice of you. It doesn't seem like much to them.
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#88. Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.
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#89. Stewardship is like that. I won't answer for the way another Christian mismanaged money. I won't be charged with another person's irresponsible consumption. Nor will I get credit for how another faith community shared or sacrificed luxuries for the marginalized. I'll answer for my choices.
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#90. Condemnation is a trick of the enemy, not the language of the heavens. Shame is not God's tool, so if we are slaves to it, we're way off the beaten path. And
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#91. I am still stunned by my capacity to spin Scripture, see what I wanted, ignore what I didn't, and use the Word to defend my life rather than define it.
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#92. God is unveiling women around the world. He always has and continues to work through women and girls, who are half of His church. They are, like men and boys, His image bearers. They are also, like men and boys, gifted, empowered, smart, and anointed.
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#93. Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn't.
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#94. It's about building bridges with those who won't come to us on Sunday, not as a project but because Jesus loves them and told us to. It's a dangerous journey that requires honesty and vulnerability.
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#95. Media has changed the way we interact with one another and what we spend our time doing. Our social norms have changed.
The dangerous part of our social media and technologically saturated world is not its existence but what it distracts us from.
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#96. Jesus always colored outside of the lines here, extending grace and healing to those well beyond His people group. He often healed people first; they believed second.
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#97. If Jesus is the heart of the church, people are the lifeblood. There is a reason He created community and told us to practice grace and love and camaraderie and presence. People soften the edges and fill in the gaps. Friends make up some of the best parts of the whole story.
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#98. What if all my silly little individual purchases do matter? What if I joined a different movement, one that was less enticed by luxuries and more interested in justice? What if I believed every dollar spent is vital, a potential soldier in the war on inequality?
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#99. Jesus was tender toward brokenness but impatient toward egotism.
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#100. Make a normal chocolate cake from a box. (Amen and hallelujah. Ain't nobody got time for homemade cake.) After it cools completely, slice it into one-by-four-inch strips, around the
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