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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has…
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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…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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,…
— Erica Jong
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We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms.
— N.D. Wilson
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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…
— Gregory Maguire
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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…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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A catechism is simply a tool for teaching the fundamentals of the faith. Unlike a creed or confession, a catechism uses questions…
— Kevin DeYoung
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When we use old confessions and catechisms, we help teach our people that their faith is an old faith, shared by millions…
— Kevin DeYoung
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