Quotes about Feminine
Your feminine heart has been created with the greatest of all possible dignities—as a reflection of God's own heart.
— John Eldredge
Although Jesus was clearly of the masculine gender, the Christ is beyond gender, and so it should be expected that the Big Tradition would have found feminine ways, consciously or unconsciously, to symbolize the full Divine Incarnation and to give God a more feminine character—as the Bible itself often does.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.
— Julian of Norwich
The crucifixion of the Goddess - the invalidation of feminine beliefs and values - lies at the heart of all our painful dramas. But crucifixion is merely a prelude to resurrection, and we are now living at the beginning stages of the resurrection of the Goddess.
— Marianne Williamson
When the female voice is repressed and stifled, the entire community can easily find themselves cut off from the sacred feminine, depriving themselves of the full image of god.
— Rob Bell
Woman is at once apple and serpent.
— Heinrich Heine
Her heavenly form Angelick, but more soft and feminine, Her graceful innocence, her every air Of gesture, or least action overawed His malice
— John Milton
In the many images of Mary, humans see our own feminine soul. We needed to see ourselves in her, and say with her, "God has looked upon me in my lowliness. From now on, all generations will call me blessed" (Luke 1:48).
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Like the Christ Mystery itself, the deep feminine often works underground and in the shadows, and—from that position—creates a much more intoxicating message. While church and culture have often denied the Divine Feminine roles, offices, and formal authority, the feminine has continued to exercise incredible power at the cosmic and personal levels.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine.
— Marianne Williamson
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
— Victor Hugo
If we want to know what it means to be human, we look at Jesus. He does things we'd culturally consider feminine - like weep - and others our culture would consider masculine - like flip tables in the temple. But really all these things are just human. And since Jesus is God, these characteristics are also divine.
— Shane Claiborne