Quotes & Sayings About Catechists

My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for 'The District' and 'CSI: NY.' — Craig T. Nelson

Prejudice and Bias The gospel presents the contrasting images of the log versus the splinter (v. 41). Any truly wise teacher or preacher must beware of personal prejudices, namely, the log in his or her own eye that can limit or even twist the message. Sometimes catechists and preachers simply expound their own prejudices rather than the truth of the Gospel or the authentic teaching of the church. Sometimes scholars teach what is in their eyelashes rather than what is in the text! Anytime we find ourselves surprised in a new situation, we should look inward because the very fact of surprise may indicate a prejudice or at least a presumption in the face of something unexpected. The "expected" could be the prejudice. — Richard Sklba

I believe in giving people a second chance. — George Zimmer

As he crossed Grattan Bridge he looked down the river towards the lower quays and pitied the poor stunted houses. They seemed to him a band of tramps, huddled together along the riverbanks, their old coats covered with dust and soot, stupefied by the panorama of sunset and waiting for the first chill of night bid them arise, shake themselves and begone. — James Joyce

I don't think you can know God unless you're passionate about him so you're either screaming at him, enraptured with the idea of being around him or feeling him in your life. — Jim Carrey

If there was some way of knowing which boys were likely to turn out to be decent men, boys that could love us back as passionately as we felt we could love them, then we could banish the likelihood of divorce and unhappiness to a statistically unlikely outcome. — Belinda Jeffrey

[I]ndeed, one hears, in early Christian theology, as many echoes of Persian dualism as of Hebrew Puritanism or Greek philosophy. — Will Durant

They're not scary when they're ready to go to heaven, are they?" Maggie said. "No, they're not," Mary agreed. "They're all cleaned up and ready to go home. — Terri Reid

The eye is to light as the soul is to God. — Geoffrey Wood

In my day you got married and spent one holiday with one set of in-laws and another with the others. None of this bonding business. — Katherine Hall Page

Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink. — Gene Ween

Snorting cocaine is like feeding pork to the brain. — Big Pun

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone. — Diane Setterfield

What if we did get so lucky that we're due for something terrible? — Jodi Picoult