Top 50 Stasi Eldredge Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “A woman is a warrior too. But she is meant to be a warrior in a uniquely feminine way. Sometime before the sorrows of life did their best to kill it in us, most young women wanted to be a part of something grand, something important.”

— Stasi Eldredge

2. “We can be satisfied. We are loved, wanted, seen, delighted in, provided for, cherished, chosen, known, and planned on. We are set apart, believed in, invited, valued, of immeasurable worth, and blessed.”

— Stasi Eldredge

3. “Being beautiful is a quality of spirit recognized primarily in a woman whose soul is at rest because she believes her God when he calls her lovely.”

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4. “What if you have a genuine and captivating beauty that is marred only by your striving?”

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5. “The heart and life of a woman is much more vast than that. All women are made in the image of God in that we bring forth life. When we offer our tender and strong feminine hearts to the world and to those we love, we cannot help but mother them.”

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6. “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.”

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7. “Made in the perfect image of a perfect relationship, we are relational to the core of our beings and filled with a desire for transcendent purpose. We long to be an irreplaceable part of a shared adventure.”

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8. “Her soul is Alive. And we are drawn to her.”

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9. “We won’t be perfect on this side of heaven. But Jesus is perfect. Always. We are becoming more holy and true. Jesus already is. His name isn’t “Becoming.” It is “I Am.” Perfection isn’t the goal. Jesus is.”

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10. “You are you. Unique. Marvelous. Beautiful. Quirky. And imperfect.”

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11. “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.”

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12. “It is not too late. It is not too hard. You are not too much. God’s mercies are new every morning. There is mercy in his eyes even now.”

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13. “God does not live in a perpetual state of disappointment over who we are.”

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14. “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.”

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15. “Father bestows identity. Mother bestows self-worth.”

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16. “Nothing is out of reach for Jesus.”

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17. “The voice of Shame says, I basically hate me; I need to get rid of me. The voice of Discipline says, I’ve got to fix me, because me is not good. God says, I love you; let me restore you.”

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18. “You were born into a glorious mess, and we all have become something of a glorious mess ourselves. And in the midst of our mess, God has a thing for us. He does not despise our humanity or despair over our condition as we sometimes do. He does not turn his face away from us in our failings or our self-centeredness, as we would like to. He is not surprised.”

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19. “The mystery of the feminine heart was meant to be a good thing, by the way. A source of joy.”

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20. “We can be so free. It all begins here – with an internal choice to let Christ so invade our hearts that we cannot be held to any sort of bondage internally. We choose to love, to forgive; we choose not to fear; we choose life.”

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21. “When you like yourself, you are free to enjoy others, and in your presence people experience an invitation to become and enjoy who they truly are.”

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22. “In fact, this could be the most important thing we ever learn about God– that he yearns for relationship with us... We see him as strong and powerful, but not as needing us, vulnerable to us, yearning to be desired.”

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23. “It is actually helpful to acknowledge the truth that we are just as quirky as everyone else and that God loves quirky!”

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24. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson.”

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25. “Your heart itself, as a woman, is an invitation. An invitation delivered in the most intimate and personalized way. Your Lover has written something on your heart. It is a call to find a life of Romance and to protect that love affair as your most precious treasure. A call to cultivate the beauty you hold inside, and to unveil your beauty on behalf of others. And it is a call to adventure, to become the ezer the world desperately needs you to be.”

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26. “When we have a change of heart on the inside, it manifests itself on the outside.”

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27. “We are loved. Born out of love, into love, to know love, and to be loved. Yes, we were born into a fallen, sorry world, which is at the same time more lovely than any fairy tale. It is both. And in this beautiful, heartbreaking world, God – the eternal, omniscient, amazing One – loves human beings. Including you. Especially you.”

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28. “That longing in the heart of a woman to share life together as a great adventure-that comes straight from the heart of God, who also longs for this. He does not want to be an option in our lives. He does not want to be an appendage, a tagalong. Neither does any woman. God is essential. He wants us to need him-desperately. Eve is essential. She has an irreplaceable role to play. And so you’ll see that women are endowed with fierce devotion, an ability to suffer great hardships, a vision to make the world a better place.”

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29. “Much of what we call our ‘personalities’ is actually the mosaic of our choices for self-protection plus our plan to get something out of the love we were created for.”

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30. “The longing in the heart of a woman to share life together as a great adventure– that comes straight from God, who also longs for this. He does not want to be an option in our lives. He does not want to be an appendage, a tagalong. Neither does any woman. God is essential. He wants us to need him– desperately.”

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31. “Fear in its most wicked, powerful form cripples our souls and warps the very fabric of our true hearts.”

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32. “Offenses that are held on to lead to death.”

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33. “His wife was a tiny woman who I can best describe as being very present. She was not a woman hiding, nor a woman afraid. She was a woman at rest, at home with herself and with all pistons firing. She was alive and beautiful.”

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34. “There is a song written on your heart and you must sing it. The world is waiting, needing what it is you have to offer. You must live the life you were born to live.”

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35. “Our very dissatisfaction with our weaknesses and struggles points to the reality that continuing to live in them is not our destiny.”

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36. “The very fact that we long for the change we do is a sign that we are meant to have it. Our very dissatisfaction with our weaknesses and struggles points to the reality that continuing to live in them is not our destiny.”

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37. “Defiant joy does not depend on feeling happy. Defiant joy is solely based on the victory of Jesus Christ and all that He has won for you.”

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38. “No one gets a pain-free life. I know some girls’ lives look pretty perfect from a distance, but only from a distance. You get close and you learn the truth. A life without suffering is a fantasy life, and you don’t live in a fantasy.”

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39. “There is great evil in the world, my sister, and much of it is directed at women. The source of that evil is not men, or women, but Satan. If you will accept this, you can not only make leaps forward in understanding your life, but you can find your way through the battle to the goodness God has for you and the goodness he wants to bring through you.”

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40. “God has not given me a spirit of fear, so why am I so consumed with worry over my children, my finances, my future? If the fear of man is a snare, why do I still find I am terrified of exposing my true self and then being rejected?”

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41. “With self-discipline, the focus remains “self,” so we are already off to a bad start. Trying, striving, working harder may get us through the week, but it won’t take us through the decades.”

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42. “Remember, misogyny is hatred. Whether we are aware of it or not, when we hate other girls, we are hating ourselves, cooperating with the Enemy, and perpetuating grave damage. To hate, Jesus said, is to murder.”

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43. “How do we live in freedom? We live in freedom when we come to believe, know, receive, and embrace the boundless love of God for us – when we are captured by his goodness, his faithfulness, his honor, his sacrifice, his heart that yearns for us. Then we can dance for an audience of One. Because we are so completely loved. We are safe and secure in the love of God. Every moment of our lives.”

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44. “God is not going to love me any more or any differently when and if I finally lose this weight and become free from the stranglehold of food. Jesus’s love for me, my Father’s love for me, never changes.”

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45. “Currently, the physical standards of beauty held up in the media as the goal are actually out of reach for 98 percent of the population. ‘This is what is beautiful,’ we are told. ‘Look like this! Try to be this! You will never be able to, but please keep trying because we are making a lot of money out of your continued failed attempts.”

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46. “The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. – Madeleine L’Engle.”

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47. “The more specific I am about the details I am concerned with as I pray, the better the results.”

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48. “The hard, true thing about our deepest fears is that what happens is completely out of our control. Life is primarily out of our control. People are out of our control, and certainly their choices are out of our control. There is only one person we can ultimately choose life over fear for. Ourselves.”

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49. “God isn’t waiting for me to get my act together in order to become worthy of his affection. I have only and ever been lovely to God, and so have you.”

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50. “Dream. You have permission to dream. And besides, if you don’t have a dream, how can you have a dream come true?”

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