Catechisms Quotes

#1. 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

#2. When we use old confessions and catechisms, we help teach our people that their faith is an old faith, shared by millions over many centuries. We also help them realize that other Christians have asked the same questions.

Kevin DeYoung

#3. We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment - narrative catechisms.

N.D. Wilson

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

N.D. Wilson

#5. 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

#6. If you do not regard the great confessions and catechisms of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as being biblical in their teaching on justification, then you should probably do the decent thing and become a Catholic.

Anonymous

#7. If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body
Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit,
Felt in the tingling bruises of collision,
And known to captains as esprit de corps.

Anthony Hecht

#8. You are human and fallible.

Charlotte Bronte

#9. There are few things more powerful than a name. A single phrase that somehow becomes a symbol for an entire existence.

Lance Conrad

#10. The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.

Homer

#11. Durand smiles. There is nothing behind the smile except perhaps another smile, repeating ad infinitum into the distance.
'Of course,' he says.

Beatrice Hitchman

#12. Breast feeding is a good thing. I promise you that's not what made you gay. "
" I know that, men did that. And penises.

Z.A. Maxfield