Catechism Quotes
23 quotes by 22 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms.
— N.D. Wilson
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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
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I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.
— Martin Luther
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. . . 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
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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
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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
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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
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The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.
— Claudio Hummes
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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
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I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.
— Iain Banks
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Catechism Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 23 Catechism Quotes as follows: