Catechisms For Children Quotes & Sayings

We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the idea of unionism. We have seen the history and development of unions in this country and we tell the growers that we want nothing more, but that we want our own union and we are going to fight for it as long as it takes. — Cesar Chavez

Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being. — Gregory Maguire

I knew I wanted to direct since I was a kid. That was something I was always fascinated by and wanted to experience and see if I would be any good at it. — Fred Savage

Deciding to do it and actually doing it are two very different things. — Toni Sorenson

Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours. — Elizabeth Bibesco

A catechism is simply a tool for teaching the fundamentals of the faith. Unlike a creed or confession, a catechism uses questions and answers. Many Protestant confessional traditions, like Lutherans, Presbyterians, and Reformed, have used catechisms for centuries. Initially, most catechisms were intended for children. — Kevin DeYoung

The nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep — Angelo Dundee

To pastors and teachers
Compose catechisms particularly to teach prayer, not by reasoning nor by method, for the simple are incapable thereof; but to teach the prayer of the heart, not of the understanding; the prayer of God's Spirit, not of man's invention.
Alas! By wanting them to pray in elaborate forms ... you create their chief obstacles. The children have been led astray from the best of fathers, by your endeavouring to teach them too refined, too polished a language ...
A father is much better pleased with an address which love and respect in the child throws into disorder, because he knows it proceeds from the heart, than by a formal and barren harangue, though ever so elaborate in the composition. The simple and undisguised emotions of filial love are infinitely more expressive than all language and all reasoning. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

He did not seem fazed by the shimmer of light in the air, or the two wet teenagers in their underwear shivering behind it. — Sarah Rees Brennan

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

Lovin this Ghost Ghirls! It was great to get to play a madame not just a boring prostitute. — Natasha Leggero

He was on the bench for 36 years and had the girth to show it. — Rodes Fishburne