By Kayla DeKraker
Sadie Robertson Huff believes in the importance of loving God and loving others, and princess movies are a perfect way to learn about those qualities.
“If you think about the old-school princess movies, they all have the same narrative, right?” Huff said at the There{4} Gathering 2025. “There’s a princess who falls under some kind of curse, and she is in desperate need of a savior. She cannot help herself. She needs someone to come in and save her.”
This narrative in princess movies is similar to the narrative of our lives: we are in need of a savior.
She continued, “And sure enough, the prince comes in at the last minute, saves her from death, saves her from the curse, gives her a kiss. She comes back to life. Everything is redeemed, and she lives happily ever after. And what’s so crazy is as I’m watching, I’m like that’s so similar to the narrative of our life. You are a princess. Facts. God is king. You have been under the curse of sin. We can’t really help ourselves.”
She then read John 3:16, which says, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
“He came, He took our sin on the cross and then He rose again three days later, giving us the hope of eternal life,” Huff declared.
Understanding His love and loving Him back will truly change how we live, as Jesus describes in Matthew 22:37-39.
However, Disney now teaches audiences that the princess can save herself. Robertson Huff noted that the main character is often a strong, independent woman who can rescue herself — a contradiction of the gospel truth older movies used to convey.
“If you haven’t noticed, there’s no longer even a true love’s kiss or anything like that…Disney is like ‘We don’t need a man. We don’t need a savior. We can save ourselves,’” Huff said. “The problem is it doesn’t work because it doesn’t bring you joy, and it doesn’t bring you peace. It doesn’t bring you happiness. It doesn’t bring you love because those things are the fruit of who God is, not the fruit of who you are.”
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She explained how Disney movies back in the day had a “beautiful story of a savior redeeming someone,” but we never got to see how that love changed the princess.
But the greatest “magic” in the world? That the God of the universe pursues you and that you can pursue Him back.
“There is also nothing more supernatural and magical [than] pursuing Him back and being in a relationship and seeing how that relationship changes every single thing about the way that you are and about the way that you live your life,” she explained.
Although being strong, brave and independent are admirable and even Godly qualities, we cannot save ourselves. In a world that celebrates self-help, relying on God’s love and loving Him wholeheartedly is the only thing that will truly change our lives.
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