Catechism Quotes

23 quotes by 22 authors

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… — George Herbert
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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow. — George Washington Cable
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,… — Erica Jong
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… — Mike Aquilina
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… — Pope Francis
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… — Rocco Buttiglione
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… — C.S. Lewis
We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms. — N.D. Wilson
The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life. — Pope Benedict XVI
I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain. — Martin Luther
. . . Practice teaching catechism and preaching. Missionaries must apply themselves to these tasks and although they do not accomplish them as successfully as… — Vincent de Paul
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
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. — G. M. Trevelyan
It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans,… — Norbert Wiener
The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism. — Claudio Hummes
When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means… — Henry David Thoreau
I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism. — Iain Banks
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… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
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,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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