Beautiful People Don't Just Happen Quotes

“Being awakened by God’s pain-megaphone redirects our focus to essential things worth preserving and nurturing: relationship with family and friends, rhythms and practices leading to health, humble service toward our work, our churches, and our neighbors, and above all, anchoring our roots in the character, promises, and future of God.”
― Scott Sauls, Beautiful People Don't Just Happen: How God Redeems Regret, Hurt, and Fear in the Making of Better Humans

“have often heard people say that they don’t want to become Christians because Christians are hypocrites. They are right in their assessment. It is impossible to be a Christian and not be a hypocrite, if by hypocrite we mean someone who lives inconsistently with who they claim to be and what they claim to believe. But our hypocrisy does not negate our Christian faith. Instead, our hypocrisy establishes it. Jesus came not for the righteous but for the unrighteous, not for the sinless but for sinners. There is no way to be a Christian without owning these realities about ourselves.”
― Scott Sauls, Beautiful People Don't Just Happen: How God Redeems Regret, Hurt, and Fear in the Making of Better Humans

“The one thing he sought every day in the temple (aka in “church”), the one thing that became his non-negotiable that he could not live without, was a daily, fixed gaze in the direction of God.”
― Scott Sauls, Beautiful People Don't Just Happen: How God Redeems Regret, Hurt, and Fear in the Making of Better Humans

“Redeeming the voices that weary us requires that the volume be turned down on lies that suggest God resents us, he is ambivalent toward our sorrows, and he will not come through for us in the end. Turning the volume down on such lies requires turning the volume up on the truths that put regret, hurt, and fear in proper perspective. To help us with this, God has provided the gift of song.”
― Scott Sauls, Beautiful People Don't Just Happen: How God Redeems Regret, Hurt, and Fear in the Making of Better Humans