"The Bible, that powerful book, has many effects:……" — Frederica Mathewes-Green
"The Bible, that powerful book, has many effects: it comforts, counsels, instructs, and brings us into the presence of God. But trying to erase offense as one of its functions is a fundamentally misguided task."
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Frederica Mathewes-Green
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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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Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it…
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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 fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
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