“After I graduated from college, while traveling around Europe, hitchhi...” — Frederica Mathewes-Green Quote

“After I graduated from college, while traveling around Europe, hitchhiking, doing the tourist thing, I went into a church in Dublin.”

“Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.”

“Women don't need to have our own little corner of the church where we can feel precious or, alternatively, cranky. In every essential thing, as far as life in Christ is concerned, the differences between men and women are irrelevant.”

“The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.”

“The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep.”

“I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.”