Stop Calling Me Beautiful Quotes

“We need Jesus Christ.
We need to hear less about us, and more about Him.”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful

“Jesus' sacrifice wasn't just a nice plan to get us out of trouble. His punishment replaced ours! Because God so loved the world, Christ paid the debt we owed.”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful

“Modern American expressions of Christianity, especially among women, are focused on the emotional, rather than intellectual, aspects of faith.”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful: Finding Soul-Deep Strength in a Skin-Deep World

“The goal of time with God is worship of God.”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful: Finding Soul-Deep Strength in a Skin-Deep World

“It also suffers from a severe case of self-focus. We come to God because of our relationship with Him, but we’ve forgotten that this relationship is meant to be a driving force for evangelism. Thus, what we learn in our Instagrammable quiet times makes us feel good but doesn’t create Christ-followers who know what following Christ looks like or how to spread the message of the gospel to others.”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful: Finding Soul-Deep Strength in a Skin-Deep World

“The term morning watch reflected the military mind-set of many Western Christians of that time. They recognized life as a spiritual war, and their time with God was part of the battle.”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful: Finding Soul-Deep Strength in a Skin-Deep World

“Brokenness becomes our identity when we live out a surface-level faith. Abundant life evades us because we don’t understand what Jesus offers through the gospel.”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful: Finding Soul-Deep Strength in a Skin-Deep World

“While we live in a fallen world, Christ has overcome the world.”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful

“We have to be flexible and open-minded in our devotional life. When what was meant to be a joyful relationship becomes a source of guilt and duty, how it must grieve God’s heart!”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful: Finding Soul-Deep Strength in a Skin-Deep World

“it’s a heart that attributes worth to Him.”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful: Finding Soul-Deep Strength in a Skin-Deep World

“of God, seeing “scripture can only be understood thro’ the same Spirit whereby it was given.” Our reading should likewise be closed with prayer, that what we read may be written on our hearts. 6. It might also be of use, if while we read, we were frequently to pause, and examine ourselves by what we read, both with regard to our hearts, and lives. This would furnish us with matter of praise, where we found God had enabled us to conform to his blessed will, and matter of humiliation and prayer, where we were conscious of having fallen short. And whatever light you then receive, should be used to the uttermost, and that immediately. Let there be no delay. Whatever you resolve, begin to execute the first moment you can. So shall you find this word to be indeed the power of God unto present and eternal salvation.”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful: Finding Soul-Deep Strength in a Skin-Deep World

“If you desire to read the scripture in such a manner as may most effectually answer this end, would it not be advisable, 1. To set apart a little time, if you can, every morning and evening for that purpose 2. At each time if you have leisure, to read a chapter out of the Old, and one out of the New Testament: if you cannot do this, to take a single chapter, or a part of one. 3. To read this with a single eye, to know the whole will of God, and a fixt resolution to do it. In order to know his will, you should, 4. Have a constant eye to the analogy of faith; the connexion and harmony there is between those grand, fundamental doctrines, Original Sin, Justification by Faith, the New Birth, Inward and Outward Holiness. 5. Serious and earnest prayer should be constantly used, before we consult the oracles”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful: Finding Soul-Deep Strength in a Skin-Deep World

“David’s life with God is perhaps one of the most visible in the Bible, as many of his prayers are turned into psalms. He sought God in the morning (5:3) and on his bed (63:6). He praised God privately (Psalm 103:1) and publicly (27:4). He delighted in God’s law (Psalm 25:4-5), which is the Old Testament to us today, and he worshipped God through music (95:1). But what characterized David’s devotion was not just style or time of day or place of worship. It was the posture of his heart. David was devoted to God Himself, not just to the act of seeking Him. This set him apart from the king before him and the people around him, and it’s a model for us today.”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful: Finding Soul-Deep Strength in a Skin-Deep World

“And if we don’t meet with God in the way we think we’re supposed to, we struggle with a burden of guilt.”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful: Finding Soul-Deep Strength in a Skin-Deep World

“Desire is a necessary part of deepening our relationship with the Lord, but it’s not possible in our own strength. We need transformed desires and hearts reflective of His.”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful: Finding Soul-Deep Strength in a Skin-Deep World

“We need to hear less about us, and more about Him.”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful: Finding Soul-Deep Strength in a Skin-Deep World

“Holy means set apart, sacred, and dedicated to God. Curiosity is a strong desire to know and learn. A holy curiosity, then, refers to a mind that strongly desires to know and learn about God. A mind like this doesn’t happen by accident. It is cultivated day by day. The Holy Spirit grows and nurtures this desire as we faithfully expose ourselves to Him through Scripture, godly community, and solid teaching (all of which we’ll address later in this book).”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful: Finding Soul-Deep Strength in a Skin-Deep World

“We need more than “pink fluff” theology of out-of-context Bible verses, compliments to our personalities that never challenge us to grow, and topical messages about womanhood and identity. We are tired of the Bible being watered down and made palatable. We need and want truth, because only truth will set us free.”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful: Finding Soul-Deep Strength in a Skin-Deep World

“The Holy Spirit and the Word are still transformative today. But until we grasp how Jesus meets us in the difficult, hard, overwhelming parts of our lives, our faith will only be theoretical. We won’t need the Word or the Spirit because we think we can self-help our way out of everything.”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful: Finding Soul-Deep Strength in a Skin-Deep World

“diligence is what a student of any kind must cultivate in order to gain knowledge.”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful: Finding Soul-Deep Strength in a Skin-Deep World

“At the very last---the last of our money, our security, our family, our life---who is still there? In the dust of our possessions and achievements, our Redeemer is alive. He is there, never forsaking, overcoming our pain with his presence. At the very end of ourselves and our hope, Jesus is still standing. This is how people can endure trials that don't make sense. His promise never to leave or forsake is an eternal promise, the kind of promise even death cannot destroy.”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful: Finding Soul-Deep Strength in a Skin-Deep World

“In the midst of her mess, she found the Messiah.”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful