7 women and the secret to their greatness

I appreciated Susanna’s writings since she wrote negative things as well as positive.

I’m thankful that Charles and John turned out all right since others had unhappy marriages and some also died quite young. Eric writes about the demons which had invaded their house and were affecting everyone very diversely for three months, until they finally departed. When they were finally rejoined, she discovered that some of the children had deviated from the straight and narrow and she endeavored to get them back on the right path. The second time, the entire house burned down and the children had to live with various families until a new one would be built. Samuel came back to them after being gone for a year. When the house burned the first time, it was thankfully only part of the house and all but one of the children escaped alive. In addition, he and his wife were at odds in their Christian beliefs. Her husband, Samuel was neglectful of his family, and would accrue debts which could hardly ever be paid. Susanna Wesley (1669-1742) was always in my mind as being an ideal mother who home-schooled her many children and taught them godly behavior. And Rosa Parks’s deep sense of justice and unshakable dignity and faith helped launch the twentieth-century’s greatest social movement.Writing in his trademark conversational and engaging style, Eric Metaxas reveals how the extraordinary women profiled here achieved their greatness, inspiring readers to lives guided by a call beyond themselves. Corrie ten Boom, arrested for hiding Dutch Jews from the Nazis, survived the horrors of a concentration camp to astonish the world by forgiving her tormentors. Susanna Wesley had nineteen children and gave the world its most significant evangelist and its greatest hymn writer, her sons John and Charles. Teenaged Joan of Arc followed God’s call and liberated her country, dying a heroic martyr’s death. In this highly anticipated follow-up to the enormously successful Seven Men, New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas gives us seven captivating portraits of some of history’s greatest women, each of whom changed the course of history by following God’s call upon their lives-now in paperback.Įach of the world-changing figures who stride across these pages-Joan of Arc, Susanna Wesley, Hannah More, Sister Maria of Paris, Corrie ten Boom, Rosa Parks, and Mother Teresa-is an exemplary model of true womanhood.

7 women and the secret to their greatness