April 2012
88 posts
“Death? Why this fuss about death. Use your imagination, try to visualize a world...”
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Unitarian, author)
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“The best charity is to feed an empty stomach”
– The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
“Love gives itself; it is not bought.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Unitarian, poet)
“The man who cannot forgive is choked up in himself; he breathes his own air.”
– Raymond John Baughan, The Breaking of Bread: Lenten Meditations 1951. Universalist Publishing House (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“The civility we need will not come from watching our tongues. It will come from...”
– Parker Palmer, Healing the Heart of Democracy, p. 16
“Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day’s performance...”
– Margaret Fuller Ossoli (Transcendentalist, Unitarian, author, editor, reformer)
“In every cell of the meanest flower that breathes, there is manifested the unity...”
– Francis Greenwood Peabody, The Religion of An Educated Man (1903) p. 23 (Unitarian, educator, ethicist)
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“The true ascetic seeks neither to exalt nor to denigrate self. Humility is to...”
– Laura Swann, The Desert Mothers
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“To be a church inside out we cannot ignore issues of social sin and focus on...”
– Letty Russell, Just Hospitality, p.15
“Let us unitedly cease to do evil and learn to do well in relation to trees.”
– Horace Greeley (Universalist, journalist, editor, reformer)
“Don’t introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can’t hate a...”
– Charles Lamb (Unitarian, critic, author, editor)
“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning...”
– Charles Dickens (Unitarian, author, reformer)
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“Deep theological dialogue does not necessarily mean the surrender of one side to...”
– Seyyed Hossein Nasr, “The Word of God: The Bridge Between Him, You, and Us” A Common Word, p. 114
“My heart for love was longing,
And a look of kindness given,
Made it leap...”
– Frances Dana Barker Gage, Poems (1867) p. 23 (Universalist, political activist, journalist, novelist, poet, abolitionist, temperance advocate)
“I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of...”
– George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (Unitarian, author)
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“He whose heart is directed toward heaven would do better to align himself with...”
– Hans Denck, Anabaptist theologian & martyr
“The true philanthropist never despairs.”
– Charles Spear, Essays on the Punishment of Death (1844) p.202 (Universalist, death penalty abolitionist, reformer, minister)
“…uniformity generally means deadness. It is nearly fatal to mental progress to...”
– Isaac Morgan Atwood, Walks About Zion (Universalist, minister, educator, Universalist Church of America Superintendent 1898-1907)
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“A central challenge for all religions in a pluralistic world is to help people...”
– Miroslav Volf, A Public Faith (2011)
“Our hearts are a rainbow of varied dye,
Blended as softly as that of the sky”
– Sarah Edgerton Mayo, “To My Sisters” (Universalist, poet, author)
“Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by...”
– Dorothea Dix (Unitarian, reformer, educator)
“There is never an end to our yearning to know the unknown after all our labor at...”
– Sophia Lyon Fahs, “In Faith,” Imprints of the Divine: A Lenten Meditation Manual for 1960 (Unitarian Universalist, educator, author, minister)
“Death is serious, but life more so…When we live, we take up our own work, and...”
– James Freeman Clarke, Messages of Faith, Hope & Love (1905) (Unitarian, minister, reformer)
“I am in and of the earth;
this is my home.
I am built
of elemental things”
– Carl J. Nelson, Snow in April (1966) (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
“The birds are flitting from tree to tree,
The sunbeams from flower to...”
– Sarah Edgerton Mayo, “The Woodland Retreat” (Universalist, poet, author)
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“Amma Sarah said, “If I prayed God that all people should approve of my conduct,...”
– Sayings of the Desert Mothers and Fathers
“By dehumanizing the Otherness we dehumanize ourselves.”
– Clarke Wells, The Strangeness of this Business (1975) Unitarian Universalist Association (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“We must realize that when basic needs have been met, human development is...”
– Earth Charter
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“Listen to the stories you tell about yourself when you are angry. If you listen...”
– Rabbi Rami Shapiro, The Sacred Art of Lovingkindness
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“Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward...”
– Margaret Fuller Ossoli (Transcendentalist, Unitarian, author, editor, reformer)
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“The heart of human identity is the capacity and desire for birthing. To be is to...”
– John O’Donohue
“There is no growth without sacrifice, no gaining without giving, no laying hold...”
– Walter Henry Macpherson, A New Day Dawns: Lenten Meditations 1946 Universalist Publishing House (Universalist, minister)
“Some evil, at least, can be overcome. And overcoming it may be but a preparatory...”
– Leslie Pennington, The Discipline of Freedom: Lent 1944 (Unitarian, minister)
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“The Holocaust shows not only how low humanity can go, but also how high it can...”
– Dorit Noak, director of Yad Vashem Memorial & Museum’s International School of Holocaust Studies in Jerusalem
“There is no more important work in this world, no greater duty, than to help...”
– James Freeman Clarke, Messages of Faith, Hope, & Love (1905) (Unitarian, minister, reformer (via uuquotes)
“We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life”
– Edwin Markham (Universalist, poet, activist)
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“Perfection is not ours to have…to aspire to perfection is to doom ourselves to...”
– Joan Chittister, Uncommon Gratitude: Alleluia For All That Is (2010) p.96
“A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Unitarian, poet)
“It matters little to what pole of doctrine the intellect swings, if the heart...”
– E. H. Chapin, Living Words (1861), p.48 (Universalist, minister)
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“The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment...”
– Barbara Brown Taylor,An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith, p.90
“The affections are a clothing and a home for the heart”
– James Freeman Clarke, Messages of Faith, Hope, and Love (1905) p.208 (Unitarian, author, minister, reformer)
“Work as if there were no working and give as though there were no giving. Love,...”
– Raymond John Baughan,The Breaking of Bread: Lenten Meditations 1951. Universalist Publishing House (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“We do not have to understand the whole of what God is doing to be part of it”
– Mary Lou Redding, While We Wait: Questions of Advent (2002) Upper Room Books, p.21
“Folks never understand the folks they hate.”
– James Russell Lowell (Unitarian, poet, critic, editor, diplomat)
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“When many little people
in many little places
do many little things,
then the...”
– Michael Franti, “Gloria”, The Sound of Sunshine
“If one wishes to unlearn selfishness let him go apart, and stand alone by...”
– E. H. Chapin (Universalist, minister)
“Religious education is concerned with people. It says – we care about you, we...”
– Allison Harrison (Universalist, Unitarian Universalist, religious educator, minister)
“I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe.”
– Harriet Martineau (Unitarian, journalist, author, reformer)
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“A spirituality of service calls one toward benevolent and sacrificial service.”
– David Augsburger, Dissident Discipleship, p.151 