April 2011
188 posts
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“For without questions your ready-made answers remain inert and there is no...”
– Yariv Ben Aharon
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When I breathe in, I breathe in peace.
Great piece by Sarah Dan Jones!
musicspeakswhenwordscannot:
When I breathe out, I breathe out love.
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“It is the church that assures us that we are not struggling for justice on our...”
– Mark Morrison-Reed, “The Task of Religious Community” (Unitarian Universalist, minister, historian)
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“Let our daughters and our sons be taught that to love God is to love whatever is...”
– Mary A. Livermore (Universalist, reformer, editor, public speaker)
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“Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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“It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes and to make all feel as...”
– Lydia Maria Child (Unitarian, author, reformer)
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“Each night a child is born is a holy night.”
– Sophia Lyon Fahs (Unitarian Universalist, educator)
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“To be a religious leader one must strive rather to get heaven into people, than...”
– Mary Safford (Unitarian, minister, social reformer)
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“The religion which makes me a moral agent equally with my father and brother...”
– Julia Ward Howe (Unitarian, social reformer, author)
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Evening Prayer April 28 →
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“Our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the...”
– Alice Walker, The Impossible Will Take A Little While
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Morning Prayer April 28 →
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Evening Prayer April 27 →
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“Thinking again!” the Duchess asked, with another dig of her sharp little chin....”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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Morning Prayer April 27 →
usgroovykids22-deactivated20130 asked: Would you consider Unitarian Universalism an Abrahamic Religion? because Wikipedia lists it under Abrahamic Religions
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“Has woman a right to herself? It is very little to me to have the right to vote,...”
– Lucy Stone (Unitarian, suffragist, reformer)
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“We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with...”
– Abigail Adams, to her husband, John Adams, Letters of Mrs. Adams
(via uuquotes)
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“When we are chaffed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us...”
– Maria Mitchell (Unitarian, astronomer, reformer, educator)
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“There can be no meaner mistake than to suppose that each one’s duty remains just...”
– James Martineau, Faith and Self-Surrender (1897): 119 (Unitarian, minister, reformer)
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Evening Prayer April 26 →
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“The bittersweet nature of questions has to do with forgetting and the desire to...”
– Aviva Zornberg
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Morning Prayer April 26 →
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Evening Prayer April 25 →
“Do not try to seize the water of the river. It always looks the same, but it...”
– Frei Betto, liberation theologian
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“Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of...”
– Roland Allen (via redpillbrethren)
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“When we are chaffed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us...”
– Maria Mitchell (Unitarian, astronomer, reformer, educator)
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“There can be no meaner mistake than to suppose that each one’s duty remains just...”
– James Martineau, Faith and Self-Surrender (1897): 119 (Unitarian, minister, reformer)
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Morning Prayer April 25 →
“Being religious despite the impossible and the laughable means shifting how we...”
– Erika Hewitt (via datalava)
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Evening Prayer April 24 →
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“Deeds not Creeds!”
– A popular Unitarian Universalist maxim. (via michaelrobinsonthoughts)
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10 things you may not have known about America's... →
gaywrites:
Taken verbatim from the Advocate article linked above:
1. 9 million LGBT people live in the U.S., 3.8 % of the adult population. 2. LGBT people are racially, ethnically, and geographically diverse: 1 in 4 are people of color and same-sex couples have identified themselves on the Census in 99% of U.S. counties. 3. A substantial percentage of LGBT people are raising children: 1 in 5...
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“Lamps in lonely windows are symbols of connection. Each lamp illumines an area...”
– Kenneth Patton (Unitarian Universalist, minister, poet)
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“Man was not made subject to woman, nor should woman be subject to man. Neither...”
– Phebe Hanaford (Universalist, educator, minister, suffragist)
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“It is not so much what we do that matters, as what we are. Though what we do...”
– Charles Le Gai Eaton, Islamic scholar
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Morning Prayer April 24 →
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Standing on the Side of Love →
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Holy Saturday: Emptiness →
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“The glory of the imperfect is that it gives to you and to me the great...”
– Eleanor Gordon (Unitarian, minister, member of the Iowa Sisterhood, social reformer)
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“We affirm that every one of us is held in Creation’s hand – a part of the...”
– William F. Schulz (Unitarian Universalist, minister, humanitarian)
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“The most important thing life’s taught me is that although I learn new things...”
– Jools Holland, musician
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“No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger...”
– ~WE Hocking (via redpillbrethren)
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“Our hands will not be clean until we get them dirty, until we roll up our...”
– Forrest Church, “Deeds Not Creeds,” in Our Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism (Boston: Beacon Press, 1989), 54. (via redpillbrethren)
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“Let us not wait for great occasions, or act for ostentatious ends. Take the...”
– E. H. Chapin (Universalist, minister) “Chances in Life” Providence and Life (1869)
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“If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is...”
– Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux (author, Unitarian Universalist)
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“Life has taught me so far one very important lesson, which is that it is not a...”
– Michael Radford, cellist 