Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes

• No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Animal, Ice, Feminist

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• Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss. Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Loss, Animal, Desperate Situations

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• Everyone wants to transform, but nobody wants to change.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Learning, People, Want

  Frederica Mathewes-Green “The Jesus Prayer: The Ancient Desert Prayer that Tunes the Heart to God”, Paraclete Press

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• Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Jesus, Belief, Courageous

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• God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Light, And Love, Doe

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• Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Abortion, Desperate

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• Jesus didn't come to save us just from the penalty of our sins; he came to save us from our sins - now, today, if we will only respond to the challenge and let him.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Jesus, Challenges, Today

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• 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.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Beautiful, Dark, Fire

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• Somehow we just dont make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Easter, Fun, Hollies

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• Sex is still the leading cause of pregnancy.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Sex, Pregnancy, Causes

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• Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Blood, Years, Two

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• It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Loss, Unique, Abortion

  "The Bitter Price of Choice". Washington Times, December 22, 1989.

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• Disaster movies do us the psychological service of forcing a quick march through the worst that could happen. At the end we see that you win a few, you lose a few, some cars are up in trees, and only the most attractive of the young people have survived.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Winning, People, Car

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