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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition. Frederica Mathewes-Green Read Quote
A segregated spiritual subculture does women no good, even if it does have adorable butterflies in the logo. Frederica Mathewes-Green Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
God’s presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel. Frederica Mathewes-Green Read Quote
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 Read Quote
