“When you die to yourself, you have nothing from your past to use as clay out of which to shape your future.” — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Copy Share Image
“the idea that one is ever too busy to pray is delusion of the most dangerous variety.” — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Copy Share Image
“I wondered: If my life was the only evidence that Christ was alive, would anyone be convinced?” — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Life Copy Share Image
“Good teachers make it possible for people to change their positions without shame.” — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Education Copy Share Image
“Listen first, and listen last, and listen in-between.” — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Communication Copy Share Image
“Don't fret when the path is lonely or treacherous. Look up.” — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Journey Copy Share Image
“The Cross is a rugged place, not a place for the squeamish or self-righteous.” — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Cross Copy Share Image
“Hospitality is not a house inspection, it’s friendship.” — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Friend Copy Share Image
“Biblical orthodoxy can offer real compassion, because in our struggle against sin, we cannot undermine God's power to change lives.” — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Compassion Copy Share Image
“We develop a taste for God’s standards only by disciplining our minds, hands, money, and time. In God’s economy, what we love… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Discipline Copy Share Image
“Answers come after questions, not before. Answers answer questions in specific and pointed ways, not in sweeping generalizations.” — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Copy Share Image
“We have, by God's grace, been given another day to serve and love, laugh and learn, pray and ponder. Spring is ready… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Copy Share Image
“Life is precious and children beloved, not because they may heal and grow, but because God made us in His image.” — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Beloved Copy Share Image
“I came to believe that my job was not to receive and critique a sermon but to dig into it, to seize… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Copy Share Image
“I think that churches would be places of greater intimacy and growth in Christ if people stopped lying about what we need,… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Christianity Copy Share Image
“If the Lord calls us to be a bridge, we have to learn to bear in his strength the weight. And it… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Copy Share Image
“God’s word is clear. Even if your husband is an unbeliever, your purpose is not to make him submit to you, but… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Husband Copy Share Image
“What good Christians don't realize is that sexual sin is not recreational sex gone overboard. Sexual sin is predatory. It won't be… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Christianity Copy Share Image
“Good teachers make it possible for people to change their positions without shame. Even as Ken prayed for my soul, he did… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Christianity Copy Share Image
“Like it or not, because I stand in the covenant of grace, I must mortify my sin. Because I stand in the… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Called by god Copy Share Image
“Many people in our community protect themselves from inconvenience as though inconvenience is deadly. We have decided that we are not inconvenienced… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Christianity Copy Share Image
“Often people ask me to describe the lessons that I learned from this experience, and I can't. It was too traumatic. Sometimes… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Copy Share Image
“I learned the first rule of repentance: that repentance requires greater intimacy with God than with our sin. How much greater? About… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Intimacy with god Copy Share Image
“Often because of misplaced priorities, we unwittingly limp along on a starvation diet of Scripture, forgetting that we have an appointment with… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Bible Copy Share Image
“Pride combined with wealth leads to idleness because you falsely feel that God just wants you to have fun; if unchecked, this… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Idleness Copy Share Image
“The university classroom is neither a shopping mall whose existence depends on disseminating the latest, sexiest critical approach, nor a museum, where… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Classroom Copy Share Image
“Sin is not a mistake. A mistake is taking the wrong exit on the highway. A sin is treason against a Holy… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Failure Copy Share Image
“So, is it chic for white women to adopt black kids these days?” I took a deep breath and stood up to… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Copy Share Image
“[W]hen you make your mistakes in public you will learn that they are mistakes and in being corrected you will grow. It… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Failure Copy Share Image
“When we are too functional, we forget the point of hospitality in the home: fellowship, not entertainment. Don't let pride stop you… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Copy Share Image
“Sexuality is more a symptom of your life's condition than a cause, more a consequence than an origin.” — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Life Copy Share Image
“they talked with me in a way that didn’t make me feel erased.” — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Copy Share Image
“There is a core difference between sharing the gospel with the lost and imposing a specific moral standard on the unconverted.” — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Christianity Copy Share Image
“When mountains move, the earth shakes. When you stand as close as we have to real-life miracles, you will get roughed up.… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Miracles Copy Share Image
“Parenting the hurt child means always knowing that you are parenting your emotional better, a human being who survived against all odds.” — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Child Copy Share Image
“Compassion means "with suffering" and involves entering into the suffering of another in order to lead the way out.” — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Compassion Copy Share Image
![“[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…” quote by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/029/rosaria-champagne-butterfield_failure_w-hen-you-make-your-mistakes-in-public-y_835881.jpg)
