Frederica Mathewes-Green quotes
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“No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.”
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“Everyone wants to transform, but nobody wants to change.”
-- Frederica Mathewes-GreenSource : Frederica Mathewes-Green “The Jesus Prayer: The Ancient Desert Prayer that Tunes the Heart to God”, Paraclete Press
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“Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss. Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.”
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“God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.”
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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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“It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.”
-- Frederica Mathewes-GreenSource : "The Bitter Price of Choice". Washington Times, December 22, 1989.
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“Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.”
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“Somehow we just dont make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.”
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“Sex is still the leading cause of pregnancy.”
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“Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.”
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“Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?”
-- Frederica Mathewes-Green
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