Jen Hatmaker Quotes

Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.

Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory.

There are only 24 hours in a day. We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.

We have this one life to offer; there is no second chance.

Maybe we don’t recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.

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.

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.

When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.

Obedience isn’t a lack of fear. It’s just doing it scared.

For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

When we realize we can stop being Jesus defenders, we can start being Jesus representatives .

For Jesus, who lived so lightly on this earth, He didn’t even have a place to lay His head. I want so deeply to be like You.

Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t.

A fast is not necessarily something we offer God, but it assists us in offering ourselves

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.

The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.

Take something away, and your habits become clear.

Faith does not always demand that God explains Himself.

The church the Bible described is exciting and adventurous and wrought with sacrifice. It cost believers everything, and they still came.

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.

I marvel at how out of place simple, humble Jesus would be in today's American churches.

Constant prayer interrupts our ego trips and disrupts our toxic trajectories.

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...

If anyone has made you feel invisible or less-than, write a new narrative on your heart.

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.

All due respect to the Resurrection, but two-becoming-one might be the greatest miracle ever.

There is something so marvelous about women comfortable in their own skin.

We can't deliver folks from their pits, but we can sure get in there with them until God does.