Catechism Quotes

• When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Mean, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.27, Cambridge University Press

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• I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Pupils, Glad

  Martin Luther (2012). “The Large Cathechism of Martin Luther”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• The Heidelberg Catechism rightly says, for all Christians who allow the Bible to absorb the world for them - who see reality through the biblical story - that the purpose of life is to glorify God - a personal being who is ultimate over us and everything else - and enjoy him forever. This should be clear to all Christians, but many Christians have been influenced to think otherwise even about the Bible because of dabbling in movements such as the New Age Movement or the Gospel of Health and Wealth or even naturalistic humanism.

  Roger E. Olson

  Christian, Biblical, Reality

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  New Life, Demand, Easy

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• The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

  Claudio Hummes

  Faithful, Church, Trying

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• I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Thinking, Support, Catholic

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• Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Education, Degrees, Diploma

  "History of England". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, 1960.

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• The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Scotch, Forever

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• Give us this day our daily mask.

  Tom Stoppard

  Bible, Prayer, Bread Of Life

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Bible, Christ Consciousness, Bread Of Life

  N. Scott Momaday, Al Momaday (1969). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.7, UNM Press

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• Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations

  Oswald Chambers

  Bible, Baptism, Ecumenism

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service”, p.137, Discovery House

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• The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

  Benjamin Rush

  Knowing Jesus, Going To Church, Truth Will Prevail

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1793-1813”

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• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gotcha!

  Attila the Stockbroker

  Bible, Bread Of Life, Creator God

  Song "The Bible According to Rupert Murdoch", 1992.

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• But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism.

  George Herbert

  Plato, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.

  Sarah Miles

  Philosophical, Lenses, Way

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• When, as a child, I first opened my eyes on a Sunday-morning, a feeling of dismal anicipation, which began at least on the Friday,culminated. I knew what was before me, and my wish, if not my word, was "Would God it were evening!" It was no day of rest, but a day of texts, of catechisms (Watts'), of tracts about converted swearers, godly charwomen, and edifying deaths of sinners saved.... There was but one rosy spot, in the distance, all that day: and that was "bed-time," which never could come too early!

  Lewis Carroll

  Friday, Morning, Children

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• When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.*

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Atheist, Prayer, Book

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2003). “The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.

  Iain Banks

  Eye, Secret

  Iain Banks (2013). “The Wasp Factory: A Novel”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully.

  Mike Aquilina

  Faith, Inspiration, World

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• We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms.

  N.D. Wilson

  Needs, Narrative, Creatures

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• I was an altar boy, I took catechism classes and religion classes, and I prayed a lot as a child. My family was very religious, and I really experienced God.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Religious, Children, Boys

  Source: www.elemente-des-seins.de

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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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• 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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• The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions...The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception.

  Leon Trotsky

  Philosophy, Mistake, Class

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