Top 70 Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Radically ordinary hospitality is this: using your Christian home in a daily way that seeks to make strangers neighbors, and neighbors family of God.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

2. “And here is the edge: Christians are called to live in the world but not live like the world. Christians are called to dine with sinners but not sin with sinners. But either way, when Christians throw their lot in with Jesus, we lose the rights to protect our own reputation.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

3. “Hospitality is not a house inspection, it’s friendship.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

4. “Christian hospitality is not for sale. It cannot be made into a commodity. The gospel is free.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

5. “The purpose of radically ordinary hospitality is to build, focus, deepen, and strengthen the family of God, pointing others to the Bible-believing local church, and being earthly and spiritual good to everyone we know.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

6. “Radically ordinary hospitality gives evidence of faith in Jesus’s power to save.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

7. “Hospitality shares what there is; that’s all. It’s not entertainment. It’s not supposed to be.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

8. “I wondered: If my life was the only evidence that Christ was alive, would anyone be convinced?”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

9. “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.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

10. “This experience taught me a powerful lesson about evangelism: The integrity of our relationships matters more than the boldness of our words.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

11. “God is calling us to so greatly love others that we do not desire for them anything that might separate them from God. Holy sexuality is a love so big that it treasures the purity of another, exonerating that person’s status as an image bearer or a daughter or son of the King, and not dehumanizing him or her through manipulating lust.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

12. “One very difficult aspect about sin is that my sin never feels like sin to me. My sin feels like life, plain and simple. My heart is an idol factory and my mind an excuse-making factory, especially when it comes to dealing with the kind of sin that clobbers me the most – indwelling sin – the unrelenting, ever-present kind that never takes a Sabbath.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

13. “Like it or not, because I stand in the covenant of grace, I must mortify my sin. Because I stand in the covenant of grace I am able to mortify sin. Daily. Hourly. No matter how long this sin has been my companion. I must never become sentimental about it. I’m called by God to put it to death. And one big proof that the grace of God is at work in me is that I know that I need to do this, even if I can’t imagine how.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

14. “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

15. “We live in a world that highly values functionality. But there is such a thing as being too functional. When we are too functional, we forget that the Christian life is a calling, not a performance. Hospitality is necessary whether you have cat hair on the couch or not. People will die of chronic loneliness sooner than they will cat hair in the soup.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

16. “Lord, please protect me from Your people.”

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17. “Knowing your personality and your sensitivities does not excuse you from ministry. It means that you need to prepare for it differently than others might.”

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18. “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

19. “We develop a taste for God’s standards only by disciplining our minds, hands, money, and time. In God’s economy, what we love we will discipline.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

20. “The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education.”

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21. “Faith in Jesus foregrounds the trust that says, “I love my neighbor because she is mine, and not because she loves me back.”

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22. “Christians who indulge the habit of admitting rather than confessing sin over time tend not to see their sin as sin at all. It just seems like life. At first, they may hate the sin. They may truly wish to be free of it. These brothers and sisters may be forgetting or not knowing that even in our battle with sin God gives us an opportunity to glorify him. Indeed, I believe that the job of a Christian is to glorify God in all situations, including in the repentance of sin.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

23. “Jesus is the Word made flesh, and that “knowing Jesus” demands embracing the Jesus of the Bible, not the Jesus of someone’s imagination. The whole Bible. Even the places that took my life captive.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

24. “We introverts miss out on great blessings when we excuse ourselves from practicing hospitality because it exhausts us. I often find people exhausting. But over the years I have learned how to pace myself, how to prepare for the private time necessary to recharge, and how to grow in discomfort. Knowing your personality and your sensitivities does not excuse you from ministry. It means that you need to prepare for it differently than others might.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

25. “I have found that traditional school settings are hostile to children who live under constant stress and duress. I resent the idea that, just because it is “free,” public education is the first choice. Public education is one choice among many, but it is not the norm against which other schooling options are to be graded.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

26. “Often because of misplaced priorities, we unwittingly limp along on a starvation diet of Scripture, forgetting that we have an appointment with Satan, our deceiver and accuser, the minute we rise from our reading chair.”

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27. “We may never know the treacherous journey people have taken to land in the pew next to us.”

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28. “The Christian life makes no room for independent agents, onlookers, renters. We who are washed in the blood of Christ are stakeholders.”

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29. “Living according to God’s standards is an acquired taste.”

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30. “Whether the pain you face now is the consequence of your sin or the sin of others, in God’s providence and in saving faith, Romans 8:28 still reigns: “God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” It is not the absence of sin that makes you a believer. It is the presence of Christ in the midst of your struggle that commends the believer and sets you apart in the world.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

31. “Pride combined with wealth leads to idleness because you falsely feel that God just wants you to have fun; if unchecked, this sin will grow into entertainment-driven lust; if unchecked, this sin will grow into hardness of heart that declares other people’s problems no responsibility or care of your own; if unchecked, we become bold in our sin and feel entitled to live selfish lives fueled by the twin values of our culture: acquiring and achieving.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

32. “He missed the core lesson: a heart broken by Jesus asks the Lord to make him godly, not bless his natural desires. A heart broken by Jesus prays, “Lord, make me yours,” not, “Lord, give me what I want.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

33. “I didn’t choose Christ. Nobody chooses Christ. Christ chooses you or you’re dead. After Christ chooses you, you respond because you must. Period. It’s not a pretty story.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

34. “Healing comes through God’s work, and God deals differently with us when we deal differently with him.”

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35. “When fear rules your theology, God is nowhere to be found in your paradigm, no matter how many Bible verses you tack onto it.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

36. “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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37. “Radically ordinary hospitality does not simply flow from the day-to-day interests of the household. You must prepare spiritually. The Bible calls spiritual preparation warfare. Radically ordinary hospitality is indeed spiritual warfare.”

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38. “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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39. “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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40. “Christians always seemed like bad thinkers to me. It seemed that they could maintain their worldview only because they were sheltered from the world’s real problems, like the material structures of poverty and violence and racism.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

41. “Stepping into God’s story means abandoning a deeply held desire to make meaning of our own lives on our own terms based on the preciousness of our own feelings.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

42. “A family that never embraces life’s risks never really lives.”

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43. “Is God giving you victory this day, if not this whole day, how about this very minute?”

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44. “It was hard to be robbed. It was hard to have God test so powerfully and privately what we proclaimed publicly – that even if you are hurt, people can’t take the things that matter most and that will survive to the new heavens and new earth – your soul, his Word, and your someday-glorified body.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

45. “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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46. “I felt and feel no solidarity with people who think their salvation makes them more worthy than others.”

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47. “There is no such thing as an independent Christian.”

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48. “God’s story is our ontology: it explains our nature, our essence, our beginnings and our endings, our qualities, and our attributes. When we daily read our Bibles, in large chunks of whole books at a time, we daily learn that our own story began globally and ontologically. God has known us longer than anyone else has. The Bible declares that he knew us from before the foundations of the world.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

49. “Worship is our rehearsal for how to live today and how to glorify God in heaven. It is not merely a Sunday morning exercise meant to make us feel good.”

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50. “We violate those we love when we try to supplant Christ by trying to fill his role, or by removing ourselves from this lavish outpouring of love by refusing to take God’s point of view on the matter of sin – its nature, origin, and consequences. Christ loves his people best. We cannot love as he did. We cannot suffer as he did. We cannot redeem our lives, our worlds, or our relationships.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield