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Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes

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The Christmas story has such power and such appeal every year. There are other stories we get tired of. You think of your favorite movie; you don’t want to watch it 15 times.  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) Women and men just aren’t that different. Oh, we’re different in some intriguing ways, and it can be fun to band together for all-gal or all-guy projects. But when it comes to the tragic mess Christ came to heal, we’re pretty much the same.  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) A segregated spiritual subculture does women no good, even if it does have adorable butterflies in the logo.  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) 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.  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) The devil’s main purpose is not to scare us, in a horror-movie way; when we’re scared of him, we’re alert to him, and that might undermine his plans. Instead, he wants to quietly, subtly lure us into stepping away from God.  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus’ fold.  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) Easter tells us of something children can’t understand, because it addresses things they don’t yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) Lots of Orthodox go to church every Sunday but don’t know much about the faith. Yet they know that there is something that they don’t know much about.  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) I think intellectualizing annoys me because it is the enemy of experience; you cannot experience the presence of God and analyze it at the same time. You can’t analyze anything and experience it simultaneously.  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) 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 Quotes) Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) People don’t do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there’s jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) You can latch onto theological ideas that are, in fact, not accurate, and refuse to let them go. I think we’ve seen this a few times in church history.  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at the last minute before the gospel reading, take Communion, and walk right out again.  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) The Orthodox hierarchy doesn’t have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn’t even a worldwide governing board to hold all the various Orthodox bodies together.  (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 Quotes) Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection.  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) Someone who wanted to challenge Orthodoxy would not be able to locate a building to hold a protest march in front of. The faith is too diffused.  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) I know by experience that Jesus Christ is a very powerful spirit - I know by experience that he is probably the most powerful spirit in the universe. I know by experience he is not a mere human being. He is something beyond that.  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) What’s wrong with us isn’t a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful self-protection, alienation from God and others.  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) I’ve been able to dig deeper into awareness of my own sinfulness, and take baby steps toward spiritual healing. I’m able to worship in an ancient communion full of awesome beauty, one that is now being blessed with quiet revival.  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and only stupid people could believe it. I actually became an anti-Christian, and very antagonistic.  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) Of the seven deadly sins, anger has long been the one with the best box of costumes. When the guy in the next car rages at you, he’s dangerous. When you rage at him, you’re just. We can usually recognize the results of anger, especially in others, as destructive and evil.  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) After I graduated from college, while traveling around Europe, hitchhiking, doing the tourist thing, I went into a church in Dublin.  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) God’s presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel  (Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes) Somehow we just don’t 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes)