Life Quote by Sarah Arthur Download Open image ““Catechesis means impressing upon youth a Life, not a religion. —KENDA DEAN AND RON FOSTER”” — Sarah Arthur ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life Religion Youth
Catechesis, preaching, and passing on the faith must not only be about educating the members of our communities in the content of our tradition.… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
“Once, during my Catholic days, I was complaining with a Catholic friend about how terrible the teaching was in parish life. A priest listening… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
“Speaking figuratively, the study of theology often produces overgrown youths whose internal organs have not correspondingly developed. This is a characteristic of adolescence. There… — Helmut Thielicke Copy Share Image
“Mark DeVries observed that the church had become the place where teenagers “are most segregated from the world of adults.”2 Churches had unwittingly cultivated… — Duffy Robbins Copy Share Image
“Kenda Creasy Dean observed, “The National Study of Youth and Religion reveals a theological fault line running underneath American churches: an adherence to a… — Alvin L Reid Copy Share Image
“It’s pretty much impossible to expect impressionable teenagers to react positively to difference when mainstream values obsessively promote a religious adherence to prejudicial norms.” — Francesca Martínez Copy Share Image
“More than a strategy, vision or plan, the unseen culture of a church powerfully shapes her ability to grow, mature and live missionally.” — J.R. Woodward Copy Share Image
“The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as in forming… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“— it is necessary to educate them from an early age to cultivate a life of faith through prayer, through the Mass, and through association with the various Catholic youth clubs and other similar organizations. It is absolutely necessary to give them a sense of God and the awareness of the existence of sin and the Devil, the tempter who… — Fr Gabriele Amorth Copy Share
“Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, church leadership too often capitulates to youthful and parental pressure that would make confirmation as fluffy, fun, and noncommittal as possible.” — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“As well as being essential to theological study, philosophy is an indispensable tool for communicating theology, for evangelization and catechesis. A faith based on… — George Cardinal Pell Copy Share Image
“every church can treat each discipleship class and each worship service as an opportunity for continual rehearsal of what the words, stories, symbols, rituals,… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Just because your faith is shaken doesn’t mean the faith is shaken. The eternal truths of the Kingdom aren’t altered or affected by the… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is our task with the next generation, and it starts with loving the story ourselves and telling it as though we believe it—because… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; which means that if the rest of us want to get close to God, we seek them… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing more ridiculously juvenile than people thinking they have to be grown up and serious when it comes to living the Christian life.” — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“if there is no light by which we see, no Great Story that illumines our days—and no Storyteller—then we have no source by which… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story, rather than the story that… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”16” — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Tell me a story,” says the poem by Robert Penn Warren. “In this century, and moment, of mania . . . Tell me a… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“If imagination, as we’ve said, is the “region of discovery,” story is the wardrobe door, sending our young people “further in” and “still further… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“While the Witch plays her pawn, the King sacrifices Himself, and to all appearances, the game is over. But the Lion has one last… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“In short, you can’t have the truths without the Truth. Either Jesus is telling the truth about Himself, or He is lying about everything… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image