Quotes From "The Secret Thoughts Of An Unlikely Convert: An English Professors Journey Into Christian Faith" By Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

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The integrity of our relationships matters more than the boldness of our words. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
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Mercy ministry always comes down to this: you can help, but only Jesus can heal. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
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Living according to God's standards is an acquired taste. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
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Before we come to Christ, we must come to ourselves. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
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Her heart was revealed in a slip, as our hearts always are. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
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There is no such thing as an independent Christian. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
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Worship is the launching pad for life. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
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[W]hen you make your mistakes in public you will learn that they are mistakes and in being corrected you will grow. It also reminded me that being wrong and responding to correction with resilience was a higher virtue than covering up your mistakes so your students and the watching world assumed that success meant never being wrong. Working from your strengths and cultivating resilience in all matters of life have always been guiding principles for me. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
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Is God giving you victory this day, if not this whole day, how about this very minute? Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
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A family that never embraces life's risks never really lives. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
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The more God-centered our worship practices, the more mercy-centered our life. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
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There is a core difference between sharing the gospel with the lost and imposing a specific moral standard on the unconverted. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
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We have, by God's grace, been given another day to serve and love, laugh and learn, pray and ponder. Spring is ready to burst into the open air, and we are ready to embrace it. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
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What good Christians don't realize is that sexual sin is not recreational sex gone overboard. Sexual sin is predatory. It won't be 'healed' by redeeming the context or the genders. Sexual sin must simply be killed. What is left of your sexuality after this annihilation is up to God. But healing, to the sexual sinner, is death: nothing more and nothing less. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
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Lord, please protect me from Your people. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
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Do we use the Word of God only as a cue card to commandeer our external behavior? Rosaria Champagne Butterfield