Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith
16 quotes
"Her heart was revealed in a slip, as our hearts always are."
"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."
"There is no such thing as an independent Christian."
"The integrity of our relationships matters more than the boldness of our words."
"Worship is the launching pad for life."
"Mercy ministry always comes down to this: you can help, but only Jesus can heal."
"Living according to God's standards is an acquired taste."
"Before we come to Christ, we must come to ourselves."
"Lord, please protect me from Your people."
"Do we use the Word of God only as a cue card to commandeer our external behavior?"
"[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."
"Is God giving you victory this day, if not this whole day, how about this very minute?"
"A family that never embraces life's risks never really lives."
"The more God-centered our worship practices, the more mercy-centered our life."
"There is a core difference between sharing the gospel with the lost and imposing a specific moral standard on the unconverted."
"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."