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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.

~Frederica Mathewes-Green

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

~Frederica Mathewes-Green

Topics: Broken Contrition God Heals Looking Love Relationship Repentance Sincere

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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

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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.

~Frederica Mathewes-Green

Topics: Community Hurt Jealousy Other People Pride Theological Theology Things Thinkers Those Vacuum Vanity Where

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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.

~Frederica Mathewes-Green

Topics: Again Before Catholic Church Communion Father Go Gospel Last Minute Mother Out Reading Right Still Take Walk Would

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I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there.

~Frederica Mathewes-Green

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The Church is the safe place to be. I can safely believe everything the Church teaches. It will not harm me, and in fact it will equip me to grow and grow and have a better and better ability to experience that direct presence.

~Frederica Mathewes-Green

Topics: Ability Believe Better Church Direct Equip Everything Experience Fact Grow Harm In Fact Me Place Presence Safe Safe Place Safely Teaches Will I Can

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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

Topics: Able Ancient Awareness Awesome Baby Beauty Been Being Blessed Communion Deeper Dig Full Healing My Own Now Own Quiet Revival Spiritual Steps Take Toward Worship

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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.

~Frederica Mathewes-Green

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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.

~Frederica Mathewes-Green

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