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  • Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.

  • Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

    "History of England". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, 1960.
  • It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or intellectual process, when the light comes from a flickering television; the voice of the deity is Bishop Sheen and you have drilled your father on his catechism answers...I was troubled at a young age by the idea that pouring water over someone's head could change both his relationship to God.

  • In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

    N. Scott Momaday, Al Momaday (1969). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.7, UNM Press
  • Anyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort, he said complacently. Perhaps there will...if we want it, she said, But what makes you think so? Why, it's in the catechism, said Davy. Oh, no, there is nothing like that in the catechism, Davy. But I tell you there is, persisted Davy. It was in that question Marilla taught me last Sunday. Why should we love God? It says, Because he makes preserves, and redeems us. Preserves is just a holy way of saying jam.

  • Chaung Tzu was one of the most natural men the world has seen. He has not given any discipline, he has not given any doctrine, he has not given any catechism. He has simply explained one thing: that if you can be natural and ordinary, just like the birds and trees, you will blossom, you will have your wings open in the vast sky.

    Men   Sky   Wings  
  • We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms.

  • When, as a child, I first opened my eyes on a Sunday-morning, a feeling of dismal anicipation, which began at least on the Friday,culminated. I knew what was before me, and my wish, if not my word, was "Would God it were evening!" It was no day of rest, but a day of texts, of catechisms (Watts'), of tracts about converted swearers, godly charwomen, and edifying deaths of sinners saved.... There was but one rosy spot, in the distance, all that day: and that was "bed-time," which never could come too early!

  • Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.183
  • Give us this day our daily mask.

    Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.31, Faber & Faber
  • I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong.

  • On the first of May, with my comrades of the catechism class, I laid lilac, chamomile and rose before the altar of the Virgin, and returned full of pride to show my blessed posy. My mother laughed her irreverent laugh and, looking at my bunch of flowers, which was bringing the may-bug into the sitting-room right under the lamp, she said: Do you suppose it wasn't already blessed before?

    Mother   Blessed   Flower  
  • The Heidelberg Catechism rightly says, for all Christians who allow the Bible to absorb the world for them - who see reality through the biblical story - that the purpose of life is to glorify God - a personal being who is ultimate over us and everything else - and enjoy him forever. This should be clear to all Christians, but many Christians have been influenced to think otherwise even about the Bible because of dabbling in movements such as the New Age Movement or the Gospel of Health and Wealth or even naturalistic humanism.

    Source: www.biblegateway.com
  • Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.

  • The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life.

    New Life   Demand   Easy  
  • Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

    Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.7, Harper Collins
  • If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him? The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains this very well. It says they should not be marginalized because of this (orientation) but that they must be integrated into society. The problem is not having this orientation. We must be brothers.

    Brother   Gay   Judging  
    “Pope Francis on homosexuality: Who am I to judge gay people?” by Ben Rossington, www.mirror.co.uk. July 29, 2013.
  • The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

    Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1793-1813”
  • But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism.

  • The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully.

  • Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow.

    Nature   Book   Answers  
    George Washington Cable (1991). “OLD CREOLE DAYS: A Story of Creole Life”, p.18, Pelican Publishing Company
  • Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!

    Love   Song   Good Life  
    Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.27, Open Road Media
  • I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.

    Martin Luther (2012). “The Large Cathechism of Martin Luther”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
  • The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

  • The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions...The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception.

  • The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.

    Men   Scotch   Forever  
    C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.120, Simon and Schuster
  • Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.

    James Joyce (2014). “The Dead and Other Stories: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.17, Broadview Press
  • . . . Practice teaching catechism and preaching. Missionaries must apply themselves to these tasks and although they do not accomplish them as successfully as others do, according to the opinion of men, it must be enough for them that they are doing the Will of God and perhaps producing more real fruit.

    Faith   Real   Teaching  
    Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”
  • Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.*

    Atheist   Prayer   Book  
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2003). “The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective”, p.8, Courier Corporation
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