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A Broken Kind of Beautiful QUOTES

A Broken Kind of Beautiful QUOTES

1 " After Sara's accident, so many well-intentioned people had offered her words of hope - that God would heal her, that she would see again - as if that was a given. It was the same hope people had offered Marilyn all those years ago. Story upon story of women who had struggled through infertility and ended up with a child on the other side.

'God is good. It'll happen,' they had told her.

As if God's goodness depended upon whether or not He answered prayers the way people wanted Him to answer. The hard truth was the sometimes He didn't. He hadn't rescued Marilyn from her infertility, and He hadn't rescued Sara from her blindness. But that didn't negate His goodness. It just meant that He had different plans. "

― Katie Ganshert , A Broken Kind of Beautiful

2 " God’s not in the business of pampering His children. He’s in the business of perfecting them. "

― Katie Ganshert , A Broken Kind of Beautiful

3 " Do you have things in your past you're not proud of? Things that make you feel ashamed?'
'That's what makes Christ's death on the cross so personal. "

― Katie Ganshert , A Broken Kind of Beautiful

4 " You know the story of the prodigal son?” Pastor Voss asked. “It’s powerful, don’t you think? The father running out to the wayward-turned-repentant son, giving him the best clothes, preparing a giant feast. All to celebrate his return. I always wonder, when I read that story, how different it would have been if, instead of accepting his father’s gift, the son would have worn sackcloth and worked in his father’s pigsty…Loses some of its power that way, doesn’t it?”
“You think that’s what I’m doing?”
“God’s calling you to be His son, not His slave. He doesn’t want you to wear shackles, Davis. Not when He’s already cut you free. "

― Katie Ganshert , A Broken Kind of Beautiful

5 " Aunt Mare, do you ever wish you’d had a different life? Something not so…hard?”
“Sometimes. But then the hard is what makes us who we are. The hard is usually what God uses to draw us closer…If I have to choose between what’s easy or what will bring me closer to Him, I pray my choice will be Him.”
“That’s a scary prayer.”
“Tell me about it.”
A hint of a smile pulled up the corner of Sara’s mouth. “But you pray it anyway. "

― Katie Ganshert , A Broken Kind of Beautiful

6 " God has a way of taking messed-up situations and flipping them on their heads.'

'Oh yeah? Give me one example.'

'Turning an executioner's cross into a symbol of hope. "

― Katie Ganshert , A Broken Kind of Beautiful

7 " Or worse, they’d drill holes in the bottom of her boat and sink her altogether. Ivy marched up the street, spotted a street sign that read Peterson, and turned the corner. The cobblestone turned "

― Katie Ganshert , A Broken Kind of Beautiful

8 " He didn't act like a normal man. Instead of looking at her with desire, he looked at her as if she were made of fine print and required reading glasses. "

― Katie Ganshert , A Broken Kind of Beautiful