Frederica Mathewes-Green

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

“As I ponder my pilgrim’s progress to Orthodoxy, however, I realize that I didn’t make the trip alone, but in a two-seater.…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Of the seven deadly sins, anger has long been the one with the best box of costumes. When the guy in the…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and only stupid…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

You can latch onto theological ideas that are, in fact, not accurate, and refuse to let them go. I think we've seen…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Women and men just aren't that different. Oh, we're different in some intriguing ways, and it can be fun to band together…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

“The reason my husband and I became Orthodox was that our mainline denomination was energetically revising its theology; church leaders were teaching…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Somehow we just dont make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life,…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

A segregated spiritual subculture does women no good, even if it does have adorable butterflies in the logo.

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Lots of Orthodox go to church every Sunday but don't know much about the faith. Yet they know that there is something…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

I think intellectualizing annoys me because it is the enemy of experience; you cannot experience the presence of God and analyze it…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green