Rosaria C Butterfield Quotes

#1. There is a core difference between sharing the gospel with the lost and imposing a specific moral standard on the unconverted.

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#2. Some people are smart enough to learn lessons the easy way. Not me. I always need to fall on my face.

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#3. The love of Christ for his people is not based upon any worthiness within them, nor should your love toward your wife be conditioned upon her actions and your judgment as to whether or not she has earned your love.

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#4. I think that churches would be places of greater intimacy and growth in Christ if people stopped lying about what we need, what we fear, where we fail, and how we sin.

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#5. How do I judge my own sincerity? The saving grace of salvation is located in a holy and electing God, and a sacrificing, suffering, and obedient Savior. Stakes this high can never rest on my sincerity.

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#6. If the Lord calls us to be a bridge, we have to learn to bear in his strength the weight. And it hurts. And it's good. And the Lord equips.

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#7. Just like a dancer's body finds its points and an equestrian incorporates her body weight into the movement of the horse, the Christian learns how to melt her will into God's.

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#8. is, in the words of The Westminster Shorter Catechism, "any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God" (Q. 14).6 Sin is mutiny, either by its omission ("want of conformity to") or its commission ("transgression of the law of God").

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#9. If this was a book written by men who were inspired by the Holy Spirit, then its admonitions about sin were not applied cultural phobia.

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#10. Because of our fallen natures, we expect that we will be repenting of sin until glory. But repentance is not simply proof of failure. It is, more importantly, a sign of God's hand upon us. It is a conversion proof, as only a saved person can repent of sin.

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#11. Good teachers make it possible for people to change their positions without shame.

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#12. believed then and I believe now that where everybody thinks the same nobody thinks very much. I

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

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

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

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#16. Union with Christ is part of the saints' armor.

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#17. The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education.

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#18. A sin is treason against a Holy God. A mistake is a logical misstep. Sin lurks in our heart and grabs us by the throat to do its bidding.

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#19. When Christ is not at the center, all of our good intentions are swallowed up by selfishness.

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#20. Are we to treat the visibly saved with greater honor than all of humanity, made as it is in God's image?

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#21. Russell Moore puts it best: "None of us likes to think we were adopted. We assume we're natural-born children, with a right to all of this grace, to all of this glory."1 But

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#22. I learned that we must obey in faith before we feel better or different. At this time, though, obeying in faith, to me, felt like throwing myself off a cliff. Faith that endures is heroic, not sentimental. And

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#23. They said I was splitting hairs and losing my objectivity. I reminded them that I was a postmodernist who didn't believe in objectivity.

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#24. A life outside of Christ is both hard and frightening; a life in Christ has hard edges and dark valleys, but it is purposeful even when painful.

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

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#26. Having the right doctrine of sin will determine whether or not you even know what grace looks like.

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#27. The Lost Tools of Learning").

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#28. Has always seemed to me that without the proper response to failure, we don't grow, we only age.

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#29. Temptation yielded to is lust deified (My Utmost for His Highest, September 17 entry). Temptation comes in many forms, but it is always personal, uncannily tailor-made for our individual moral weakness, and it takes aim at God's character, seeking to ransack our faith.

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#30. Is God giving you victory this day, if not this whole day, how about this very minute?

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