Danielle Strickland Quotes

the verse that talks about the valley of the shadow of death is movement. The psalmist is passing through the valley; even in the midst of our enemies, the Lord is preparing a feast for us. The movement of the psalm suggests that we move through even our darkest times. We don’t lie down in the valley; we walk through it. We sit at the table God sets in the presence of our enemies, enjoy his feast, and then get up and keep moving. The enemy never has the final word. We move on.

I’ve been re-created by a designer who loves to recycle. My

Chaos is inevitably linked to the creation of new things.

You see, lies – especially the blatant ones – need to be believed to have true power.

The popular Christian concept of a “good woman” is someone extremely feminine, sensitive, good-looking, and submissive to a handsome husband who keeps his promises. Lovely – if you live in Disneyland. Or, actually, if you live in this male-dominated, externally obsessed Western world.

Joseph was raised in a desert to lead in a palace, but Moses was raised in a palace to lead in a desert.

The more set you are on your idealized future, the more susceptible to cynicism and despair you are during times of uncertainty.

Our task in life is to come into agreement with God about who we are. This understanding that our value comes from God and not from ourselves or the world around us is liberating at our core.

I’d suggest the Sabbath is a way of defying slavery. Slaves, by definition, cannot stop working. Sabbath is living in such a way that we are no longer slaves.

What the world longs for is not more of the same, but something different: a people who embody something good. Freedom from the inside out.

All the great reformers of history saw liberation extending beyond the oppressed to result in redemption of the oppressor, and the reconciliation of both.

I remember someone once saying, during a time of sung worship, that sometimes you sing because you believe and sometimes you sing until you believe—and both are good. That’s because worship shifts things. Worship is warfare—a confrontation of spiritual power, realigning us with truth.

First, she told me, you’ve got to imagine a better world. Second, you’ve got to truly understand the oppression.

The Salvation Army, was always talking about the trajectory of freedom and equality in people’s lives. He used to say that our job was to get people saved, keep them saved, and empower them to get someone else saved. In other words, the freedom of one person from oppression was the possibility of another person’s freedom from oppression. Our freedom was for something greater than ourselves.

For a wound to be healed it needs to be exposed—air has to get to it—and treatment needs to be applied. All of those possibilities exist only when we acknowledge the injury.

True humility is agreeing with God about who you are.