Whoever said Chick-fil-A’s waffle fries aren’t good for you isn’t familiar with the remarkable rise of Senator Tim Scott.
South Carolina’s junior senator since 2013, Tim Scott worked in a movie theater as a teenager growing up in North Charleston. On breaks, he’d stop by the adjacent Chick-fil-A restaurant where he’d order waffle fries and a water.
John Moniz, the restaurant’s owner-operator, once asked him why he only ordered the fries and not a chicken sandwich. Tim told him it was what he could afford. The two men struck up a friendship, which eventually evolved into a mentorship.
Senator Scott credits the late Chick-fil-A operator with helping instill in him Christian, conservative, and common-sense ideals he was then able to develop and make his own.
Those convictions are on full display in Senator Scott’s new book, One Nation Always Under God, which emphasizes the importance of prayer and faith in every truly successful life. It’s a book filled with inspirational stories of ordinary people who did extraordinary things with the gifts they were given.
Here are ten memorable convictional observations from Senator Scott in the book as he details these “profiles in Christian courage.”
- “We can’t return to our foundational principles if we relegate them to one day of the week. Jesus’s teachings aren’t just for Sundays. They’re meant to transform our lives, and that means the work we do the rest of our time.”
- “Each of us can make choices that will shift the course of our lives, our families, our communities, our nation, and, ultimately, our world.”
- “Vision requires us to believe that we have agency and responsibility. Victimhood kills vision.”
- “Truth is not subjective … Faith is a guiding force when standing for justice.”
- “Each and every one of us has dreams that God has woven into our hearts. Yet so many of us have pushed down these dreams for hundreds of reasons.”
- “Faith and prayer are interconnected. Prayer is more than a formal conversation with God; it is an invitation to dream with Him. If we can see prayer through this lens, it transforms our prayer times into a dynamic process of aligning our imaginations with God’s will, where our deepest dreams and hopes are intertwined with divine inspiration.”
- “The American Dream is about more than just effort. Every hard thing we do is enabled by the grace that God has shown us.”
- “Spiritual revival often leads to social and political reform.”
- “God blesses us so we can bless others.”
- “Prayer is never a substitute for hard work and perseverance.”
Senator Scott ends the book on a personal note. On August 3, 2024 the South Carolinian married Mindy Noce, a mother of three.
“Marriage is a profound reminder that life is constantly renewing itself, offering us opportunities to reflect, recalibrate, and move forward with a purpose,” Senator Scott writes. “New beginnings are about more than simply turning the page – they are about building on what came before while dreaming of what can be.”
Whether writing about marriage, life, and even a nation as it approaches its 250th birthday in 2025, Senator Scott’s reflections land during a critical season of our nation’s history.
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