Religious Education Quotes

“Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the spirit God gives them. They become unhappy and peevish because they don't find the consolation they want in spiritual things. Many never have enough of hearing counsels, or learning spiritual maxims, or keeping them and reading books about them. They spend more time in these than in striving after mortification and the perfection of the interior poverty to which they are obliged.”
― Juan de la Cruz, Dark Night of the Soul

“Often religious education teaches us to conform and creates a psychological prison which is difficult to escape.”
― Debasish Mridha

“But my mother wanted her children to be educated by nuns and priests all dressed in black, the way it had been done down through the generations with her people. Taught by people who had a firm grasp of how big and awful the world could be.”
― Edward P. Jones, All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories