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“We may never know the treacherous journey people have taken to land in the pew next to us.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

“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.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert

“When the Lord entered my world, I experienced that gospel-ignited “expulsive power of a new affection” (to quote the title of Thomas Chalmers’s famous sermon). That new affection was not heterosexuality, but Jesus, my Jesus, my friend and Savior. I was not converted out of homosexuality. I was converted out of unbelief.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, Openness Unhindered: Further Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert on Sexual Identity and Union with Christ

“When Christ is not at the center, all of our good intentions are swallowed up by selfishness.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert