"Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no……" — 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 what it was designed to be."
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21 Quotes by Frederica Mathewes-Green
Frederica Mathewes-Green has 21 quotes on this site.
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It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.
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No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as…
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Everyone wants to transform, but nobody wants to change.
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Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is…
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Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?
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Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.
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My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to…
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I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there.
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As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and…
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After I graduated from college, while traveling around Europe, hitchhiking, doing the tourist thing, I went into a church in…
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Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for…
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The Church is the safe place to be. I can safely believe everything the Church teaches. It will not harm…
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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