May 2011
115 posts
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What three things have you learned that are most...
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“What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not...”
– Sai’ib of Tabriz
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“Loss makes artists of us all as we weave new patterns in the fabric of our lives”
– Greta W. Crosby (Unitarian Universalist)
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“On every battlefield they lie, in the crowded yards of every prison ground, in...”
– Clara Barton, Speech to Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Day, 1879 (Universalist, reformer, founder of American Red Cross, humanitarian)
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What sacrifices by others do you appreciate most...
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What do you most love about life?
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How are you doing your duty to the best of your...
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“Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave...”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (Unitarian, editor, author) excerpted from The Chambered Nautilus (via uuquotes)
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How are you choosing agency for goodness? To be an...
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“Apathy is a sort of living oblivion”
– Horace Greeley (Universalist, journalist, abolitionist, reformer)
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What do you still have to learn?
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“The spirit of Love will be intensified to Godly proportions when reciprocal love...”
– George de Benneville (Universalist, mystic, physician, humanitarian)
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“We have kinship with the earth. We are the stuff of animals and trees and...”
– Clinton Lee Scott (Universalist, minister)
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“The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess...”
– Confucius
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“Walking is defined as a process of falling and recovering one’s self. All...”
– Caroline Bartlett Crane (Unitarian, minister, reformer) The Individual Factor in Social Regeneration (via uuquotes)
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“Water is the mother of all life. There is no life without water. Whether we view...”
– Myke Johnson (Unitarian Universalist, minister) “Water, Water” via Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (via uuquotes)
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“The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence...”
– Thomas Merton
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“Religion is the most substantial thing in the world; it can take more hard...”
– E.H. Chapin (Universalist, minister)
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“It is easy to gain the right to palliate when charity is popular. It is easy to...”
– Clarence R. Skinner (Universalist, minister, educator, reformer) The Social Implications of Universalism (via uuquotes)
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“An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the...”
– Clara Barton (Universalist, social reformer, founder of American Red Cross)
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How are you loving & respecting this earth?
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“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see...”
– Aldo Leopold
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“Free discussion is the soul of democracy and the guarantee of our liberties. It...”
– “A Social Program,” Universalist General Convention, 1917 (via uuquotes)
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“Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s...”
– Hosea Ballou (Universalist, minister)
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“Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in...”
– P.T. Barnum (Universalist, entrepreneur)
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“Universalists are optimists. They not only hope, but they confidently assert,...”
– John van Schaik, Jr. (Universalist, minister, editor of Universalist Leader)
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How are you creating a community of loving the...
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“Compassion is always, at its most authentic, about a shift from the cramped...”
– Gregory Boyle, Tattoos of the Heart
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Where is your faith pilgrimage taking you today?
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“Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
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“Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way”
– Hosea Ballou (Universalist, minister)
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“Universalists are often asked to tell where they stand. The only true answer to...”
– L.B. Fisher (Universalist, minister) Which Way? (1921)
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What are your favorite sacred places?
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“It is forbidden to live in a town that does not have a green garden”
– Talmud, Yerushalmi, Kiddushin 4:12
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“To worship the wise is much easier than to profit by their wisdom.”
– Clinton Lee Scott (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“Every living age always has defined religion in the light of its own...”
– L. B. Fisher (Universalist, minister) Which Way? (1921)
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How has a sacred experience called you to...
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“The sacred” refers to an inward, mysterious sense of awesome presence, a reality...”
– Rabbi Arthur Green, Radical Judaism: Rethinking God and Tradition
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“To know for a time the peace of serenity…is the beginning of new understanding.”
– Regina LaPoint (Universalist) Advent Meditation Manual, 1953 (via uuquotes)
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“The line in life, nature, science, philosophy, religion constantly returns into...”
– Sarah Alden Ripley (Unitarian, educator)
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5 Smooth Stones of Liberal Religion (for children)
I appreciate James Luther Adams’ complex and rewarding essay on the five smooth stones of liberal religion. I translated it into a simplified form for use in adult programming, but then that still didn’t pass the five-year-old-test.
I’d like us to be able to use the five smooth stones in our classrooms and at home, as part of living this Unitarian Universalist faith. Adams was...
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How does doubt matter to your faith?
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“The only real corrective for passive disbelief is passionate doubt.”
– Sr. Joan Chittister, Uncommon Gratitude: Alelluia for All That Is (2010) p.15
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“Religions have always been means for realizing the highest values of life…But...”
– The Humanist Manifesto (1933)
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“The central task of the religious community is to unveil the bonds that bind...”
– Mark Morrison-Reed, “The Task of Religious Community” (Unitarian Universalist, minister, activist, historian)
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How are you discovering the world soulfully today?...
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“A soul is the opposite of a Thing. It was something that helped you discover the...”
– so thought the sheep of Leonnie Swann (2008) Three Bags Full: A Novel
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“The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.”
– Jane Addams (Unitarian, reformer, ethicist, community organizer) 