catechism

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A form of instruction by means of questions and answers.

A book containing a summary of principles, especially of religious doctrine, reduced to the form of questions and answers.

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Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge. G. M. Trevelyan

Regarding the plan to collect my writings in volumes, I am quite cool and not at all eager about it because, roused by a Saturnian hunger, I would rather see them all devoured. For I acknowledge none of them to be really a book of mine, except perhaps the one On the Bound Will and the Catechism. Martin Luther

When I read the catechism of the Council of Trent, it seems as though I had nothing in common with the religion there set forth. Simone Weil

I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong. Rocco Buttiglione

The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism. Claudio Hummes

I like Pixie Sticks. Yeah, screw the middle man. Just a tube of sugar... I'd pour two of those in a big 12 ounce coke. And I'd go out to catechism class and try to concentrate on the priest. I saw Jesus several times. I swear I did. Tim Allen

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