Quotes by Frederica Mathewes-Green

About Frederica Mathewes-Green:

Frederica Mathewes-Green is an Eastern Orthodox author and speaker on the subjects of religion and abortion.
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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

It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold.

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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

God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Women don't need to have our own little corner of the church where we can feel precious or, alternatively, cranky. In every essential thing, as far as life in Christ is concerned, the differences between men and women are irrelevant.

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After I graduated from college, while traveling around Europe, hitchhiking, doing the tourist thing, I went into a church in Dublin.

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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.

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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.

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People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

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The New Testament Scriptures are full of references to the malice of the devil, but we generally overlook them. I think this is because our idea of salvation is that Christ died on the cross to pay His Father the debt for our sins.

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As I ponder my pilgrim’s progress to Orthodoxy, however, I realize that I didn’t make the trip alone, but in a two-seater. And I wasn’t the one driving.

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In communities, at work, but particularly in families, people are put together in something like a three-legged race. God means us to cross the finish line together, and all the other people tied together with us play some part in our progress. They ...

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The Church's teaching isn't an official statement, but the cumulative understanding of all the people who have loved and experienced Jesus through time.

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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

Author Bio

  • NameFrederica Mathewes-Green
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • Born1952
  • CountryUnited States Of America