Catechism Quotes - Page 2

• Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

  Gregory Maguire

  Children, Humility, World

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Law, Perception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.183

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• Brought up a Presbyterian, indoctrinated from the Catechism, and being naturally of an inquiring mind, I fell a ready prey to the logic of infidelity, as soon as I began to think for myself. But that which at first threatened to be the utter shipwreck of faith in God and the Bible was, under God's providence, over-ruled for good, and merely wrecked my confidence in human creed and systems of Bible misinterpretations.

  Charles Taze Russell

  Thinking, Infidelity, Mind

  Charles Taze Russell (2009). “Studies in the Scriptures”, General Books

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• Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow.

  George Washington Cable

  Nature, Book, Answers

  George Washington Cable (1991). “OLD CREOLE DAYS: A Story of Creole Life”, p.18, Pelican Publishing Company

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• Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.

  N.D. Wilson

  Stories, Flesh, Impulse

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• On the first of May, with my comrades of the catechism class, I laid lilac, chamomile and rose before the altar of the Virgin, and returned full of pride to show my blessed posy. My mother laughed her irreverent laugh and, looking at my bunch of flowers, which was bringing the may-bug into the sitting-room right under the lamp, she said: Do you suppose it wasn't already blessed before?

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Mother, Blessed, Flower

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• Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for apostles too "apostolic" to find their vocation as competent professionals within their own community. The hardware salesman threatens to dump second-rate imitations of parishes, schools and catechisms -- out-moded even in the United States -- all around the continent. The traveling escapist threatens further to confuse a foreign world with his superficial protests, which are not viable even at home.

  Ivan Illich

  Latin, School, Home

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• Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!

  Erica Jong

  Love, Song, Good Life

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him? The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains this very well. It says they should not be marginalized because of this (orientation) but that they must be integrated into society. The problem is not having this orientation. We must be brothers.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Gay, Judging

  “Pope Francis on homosexuality: Who am I to judge gay people?” by Ben Rossington, www.mirror.co.uk. July 29, 2013.

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• It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other.

  Norbert Wiener

  Believe, Ethical Principles, Progress

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.42, Da Capo Press

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• . . . Practice teaching catechism and preaching. Missionaries must apply themselves to these tasks and although they do not accomplish them as successfully as others do, according to the opinion of men, it must be enough for them that they are doing the Will of God and perhaps producing more real fruit.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Real, Teaching

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or intellectual process, when the light comes from a flickering television; the voice of the deity is Bishop Sheen and you have drilled your father on his catechism answers...I was troubled at a young age by the idea that pouring water over someone's head could change both his relationship to God.

  Susan Jacoby

  Spiritual, Father, Women

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• It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form to replace the religious catechism by something else, even a scientific one.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Mistake, Believe

  Sigmund freud (1975). “Gen Intro Psycho”, Pocket

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• I like Pixie Sticks. Yeah, screw the middle man. Just a tube of sugar... I'd pour two of those in a big 12 ounce coke. And I'd go out to catechism class and try to concentrate on the priest. I saw Jesus several times. I swear I did.

  Tim Allen

  Jesus, Men, Class

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What the historian Elie Kedourie called "the Chatham House Version" - that toxic amalgam of smugness, moral relativism, and cherished feelings of guilt about the achievements of Western civilization - everywhere nurtured the catechism of established opinion.

  Roger Kimball

  Civilization, House, Achievement

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• Anyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort, he said complacently. Perhaps there will...if we want it, she said, But what makes you think so? Why, it's in the catechism, said Davy. Oh, no, there is nothing like that in the catechism, Davy. But I tell you there is, persisted Davy. It was in that question Marilla taught me last Sunday. Why should we love God? It says, Because he makes preserves, and redeems us. Preserves is just a holy way of saying jam.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sunday, Thinking, Make You Think

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