Best 21 quotes of Rosaria Champagne Butterfield on MyQuotes

A family that never embraces life's risks never really lives.

Before we come to Christ, we must come to ourselves.

Compassion means entering the suffering of another in order to lead the way out.

Compassion means "with suffering" and involves entering into the suffering of another in order to lead the way out.

Do we use the Word of God only as a cue card to commandeer our external behavior?

Her heart was revealed in a slip, as our hearts always are.

I learned the first rule of repentance: that repentance requires greater intimacy with God than with our sin.

Living according to God's standards is an acquired taste.

Lord, please protect me from Your people.

Mercy ministry always comes down to this: you can help, but only Jesus can heal.

One very difficult aspect of sin is that my sin never feels like sin to me. My sin feels like life to me, plain and simple. My heart is an idol factory, and my mind is an excuse-making factory.

Parenting the hurt child means always knowing that you are parenting your emotional better, a human being who survived against all odds.

Slowly, but steadily, my feelings did start to change- feelings about myself as a woman and feelings about what sexuality really is and what it really isn't. I -like most everyone who identified as gay or lesbian -felt very comfortable, very at home in mu body in my lesbianism. One doesn't repent for a sin of identity in one session. Sins of identity have multiple dimensions, and throughout this journey, I have come to my pastor and his wife, friends in the Lord, and always to the Lord himself with different facets of my sin. I don't mean different incidents or examples of the same sin, but different facets of sin -how pride, for example, informed my decision-making, or how my unwillingness to forgive others had landlocked my heart in bitterness. I have walked this journey with help. There is no other way to do it I still walk this journey with help.

The integrity of our relationships matters more than the boldness of our words.

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.

There is no such thing as an independent Christian.

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.

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.

When mountains move, the earth shakes. When you stand as close as we have to real-life miracles, you will get roughed up. Mountains are big and we are small. A moving mountain can crush us.

Worship is the launching pad for life.