How are you part of the beautiful All today?
June 2011
124 posts
“Beauty feeds us from the same source that created us. It reminds us of the shaping power that reaches through the flower stem and through our own hands.”
—Scott Russell Sanders (Unitarian Universalist, educator, author)
“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table (Unitarian, author, editor)
Who’s attention most reminds you of Abiding Love? How?
“As misshapen as we feel ourselves to be, attention from another reminds us of our true shape in God.”
—Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart
“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.”
—Charles Dickens (Unitarian, novelist)
How does freedom feel?
“Be still, and know only that with you is God. One hour in these summer fields alone, in the silence of nature, with a heart that looks in prayer to Him who is above the open heavens, is worth more in determining a question of duty, than ages of rhetoric and libraries of logic.”
—Ephraim Peabody (Unitarian, minister) via Boston Unitarian blog: http://bostonunitarian.blogspot.com (via uuquotes)
“Conducting lives of gratitude, we remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy; we honor our fathers and mothers; we refuse to kill, adulterate, or steal from our loves; and we won’t bear false witness against or covet the possessions of our neighbors. Everything true, good, and beautiful streams directly from a soul full of thanksgiving.”
—Tom Owen-Towle (Unitarian Universalist, minister) Theology Ablaze (2011) Flaming Chalice Press: 32. (via uuquotes)
How do you describe, name, or sing the source of hope & love?
“There is love like a small lamp, which goes out when the oil is consumed; or like a stream, which dries up when it doesn’t rain. But there is a love that is like a mighty spring gushing up out of the earth; it keeps flowing forever, and is inexhaustible.”
—Saint Isaac of Ninevah
“No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.”
—E. H. Chapin (Universalist, minister)
“But winnow my heart, O God; torture my mind
With doubt. Let me feel the clean gales of the open sea,
Until Thy creative life is my life and my joy;
One with the miracle of Spring and the blowing grain,
The yearning of my fellowmen and the endless reach of the stars.” —Alfred Storer Cole (Universalist, minister, educator)
With doubt. Let me feel the clean gales of the open sea,
Until Thy creative life is my life and my joy;
One with the miracle of Spring and the blowing grain,
The yearning of my fellowmen and the endless reach of the stars.” —Alfred Storer Cole (Universalist, minister, educator)
What are you making of this life?
How are you embracing unpopularity & making it safe to be unpopular?
“A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.”
—Adlai E. Stevenson (Unitarian Universalist, statesman)
