Saving Amelie Quotes

“Sometimes taking up our cross is doing the thing in front of us, not the glamorous, high-risk thing afar off.”
― Cathy Gohlke, Saving Amelie

“The Church has only one altar, the altar of the Almighty . . . before which all creatures must kneel. . . . He who seeks anything other than this must keep away; he cannot join us in the house of God. . . . The Church has only one pulpit, and from that pulpit faith in God will be preached, and no other faith, and no other will than the will of God, however well-intentioned.”
― Cathy Gohlke, Saving Amelie

“Joy is the gift of God, and you are His child. He loves you so. He rejoices over you with singing!”
― Cathy Gohlke, Saving Amelie

“prayer from schools? Stripping crucifixes from walls? That would be like taking down the Ten Commandments in the United States. I’ve never been a churchgoer, but I can’t imagine such a thing happening. The churches, even the people who aren’t churchgoers, would never stand for having their rights stripped away like that.”
― Cathy Gohlke, Saving Amelie

“What worried him most was something Dietrich had mentioned observing during his visit to America—the way Americans treated Negroes. Not so different in some ways than German citizens treated Jews at the beginning. If Americans treat our citizens in such a way, will they step up to the plate to protect their own or the world’s Jews? He wasn’t sure.”
― Cathy Gohlke, Saving Amelie

“You can fool some of the people some of the time—but you’d best not be fooling yourself, the biggest fool of all.”
― Cathy Gohlke, Saving Amelie

“When the Church stops standing for Jews- for anyone- then we stop being the church. Grace is costly-it took the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, our savior to achieve that grace. It requires just as much from each of us”
― Cathy Gohlke, Saving Amelie

“What Jason knew at the end of the hour was that Dietrich Bonhoeffer had forseen the strippping of Christ from the altars of Germany. He had seen the Nazification of the German church as they had accepted their Fuhrer as its head and sovreign, replacing Christ. He'd read the truth in Hitler's Mein Kampf about the intended murder of innocents-long before anyone on either side of the Atlantic had believed that the madman could be serious able eliminating Jews or Poles of handicapped children or infirm elderly. Hadn't it all been there in black and white? Wasn't Hitler doing just what he'd written?”
― Cathy Gohlke, Saving Amelie

“That is what our Fuhrer maintains- that some are more worthy of life than others. Indeed, he asserts that an elite few in the world are worthy of life and procreation. Ask yourself, if you do not believe that to be true why is it not? If this child is not able to contribute to society in the same way you and I are able, does it make her less valuable? How do you know?”
― Cathy Gohlke, Saving Amelie

“Personal belief system? Is that the problem? That we've all just assumed that truth is what we individually believe? Or is it a collective assumption? That the truth for Germany-and the truth for Britain and Poland and the US- is their own, regardless of how it affects others? Is there no truth- no universal truth- that applies to everyone?”
― Cathy Gohlke, Saving Amelie

“She wasn't afraid. There had been so many more things to fear in life. Knowing she was loved by many people, even if they couldn't always be with her, was not one of them.”
― Cathy Gohlke, Saving Amelie

“Have mercy, and forgive us, Father. We’ve saved our sacred images, but sacrificed Your image within our souls.”
― Cathy Gohlke, Saving Amelie