Catharine Beecher Quotes

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.

God's will for your life is God's will for today, and it doesn't get any more glamorous than that.

God's will can become your internal reference point from this day forward; it is your choice.

The child … must not learn religion before he knows morality

Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.

People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller.

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

I think faith helps me a lot. God wants you to be where He wants you to be, and that's where I want to be. If I do not get a part, I understand that maybe I needed to be home at that time, maybe in school; there's always a reason. My faith is also where my core friends are, at my church, a faith-based friendship.

Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.

'What would Jesus do?' or 'What would He have me do?' are the paramount personal questions of this life.

God's purpose is more important than our plans.

I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.

I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.

Is there any wonder that there can be no peace in a world where everything possible is done to guarantee that the youth of every nation will grow up absolutely without moral and religious discipline, and without the shadow of an interior life, or of that spirituality, charity and faith which alone can safeguard the treaties and agreements made by governments?

I’d like to see us re-institute school prayer so that our young children have some moral beliefs, they have some principles

Muslims are bound to know all the tenets of their religion, to discuss them and to regulate their lives accordingly. Therefore, a purely secular education without religious instructions would be like a body without soul.

If parents would have their children blessed at church and school, let them beware they give their children no corrupt examples at home by any carelessness, profaneness or ungodliness. Otherwise, parents will do them more harm at home than both pastors and schoolmasters can do them good abroad.

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage?

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district ... are the principle support of virtue, morality and civil liberty.

We're all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.