Being Quote by 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 and becomes…

— 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 caught in…

— 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. And I…

— 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 next car…

— 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 people could…

— 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 this a…

— 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 for all-gal…

— 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 that Jesus…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

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

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

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

— Frederica Mathewes-Green