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“I wondered: If my life was the only evidence that Christ was alive, would anyone be convinced?”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey into Christian Faith

“If you are continually judging and criticizing yourself while trying to be kind to others, you are drawing artificial boundaries and distinctions that only lead to feelings of separation and isolation.”
― Kristin Neff, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

“Christians always seemed like bad readers to me, too. They appeared to use the Bible in a way that Marxists would call “vulgar”—that is, common, or, in order to bring the Bible into a conversation to stop the conversation, not deepen it.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey into Christian Faith

“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, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert