May 2012
88 posts
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“It is a feeling that no matter what the ideas or conduct of others, there is a...”
– Sylvia Plath (Unitarian Universalist, poet, literary critic, novelist)
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“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Better go with truth into all its depths and heights, and build virtue on its...”
– Sylvanus Cobb, A Compend of Christian Divinity (1847) p.v (Universalist, minister)
“Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Wishing...”
– Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies (Brahmo Samaj, reformer, author)
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“Everyday life is a school of the spirit that offers us chance after chance to...”
– Parker Palmer, Healing the Heart of Democracy (2011) p.59
“While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the...”
– Dorothea Dix (Unitarian, reformer, educator)
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“I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon the dewdrop.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“The oppressors of labor are concerned in making money, not in making men.”
– Edwin Markham, Children in Bondage (1914) p. 80 (Universalist, poet, labor activist)
“I sometimes hear it said that the Unitarian church is essentially an upper-class...”
– George L. Perin, “Universalism for the World,” Good Tidings (1900) p. 145 (Universalist, minister, missionary)
“To stir the secret depths of our hearts, writers must have penetrated deeply...”
– Jones Very, Poems and Essays (1886) p. 23 (Unitarian, Transcendentalist, poet)
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“The brave die never, though they sleep in dust:
Their courage nerves a thousand...”
– Minot Judson Savage (Unitarian, minister, author)
“Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much...”
– George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (Unitarian, author)
“Let my love, like sunlight, surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.”
– Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies (Brahmo Samaj, reformer, author)
“Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it...”
– George Bancroft (Unitarian, historian, statesman)
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“Love of God will lead us to love the creation of God. If you love the Creator,...”
– Habib Ali Al-Jifri, “Loving God and Loving Neighbor,” A Common Word, p.84
“I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree...”
– May Sarton (Unitarian Universalist, author, essayist, critic)
“Music I heard with you was more than music.
And bread I broke with you was more...”
– Conrad Aiken (Unitarian Universalist, poet, novelist)
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“Qualities like love and compassion will lift our efforts beyond dualistic...”
– Sharon Salzburg, The Kindness Handbook, p. 105
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Unitarian, poet)
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“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master”
– Ernest Hemingway
“To be perfect is impossible. God forgives our imperfections because we were...”
– Marjorie Newlin Learning (Universalist, minister)
“Our creed is kindness.”
– Stephen Kendrick (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“Real love is justice-making with compassion. It poses a mighty spiritual...”
– Carter Heyward, God in the Balance (2002) p. 69
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“Freedom is worth nothing in a country that condones slavery.”
– Theodore Parker (Unitarian, Transcendentalist, abolitionist, reformer, minister)
“Belief is many things and so is disbelief. But religion is something that...”
– A. Powell Davies (Unitarian, minister)
“I am convinced that, in accordance with the whole of Providence, every radically...”
– Henry Whitney Bellows (Unitarian, minister, President of the United States Sanitary Commission)
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“Reverence for creation comes fairly easily for most people. Reverence for other...”
– Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith p. 26
“I accept the Universe!” - Margaret Fuller Ossoli - to which Thomas Carlyle...”
– Margaret Fuller Ossoli (Transcendentalist, Unitarian, author, editor)
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“Significant agreement on love of God and neighbor does not...”
– Miroslav Volf, “A Common Word for A Common Future” A Common Word: Muslims and Christians on Loving God and Neighbor p. 20
“Religion is our human response to the dual reality of being alive and having to...”
– F. Forrester Church, Our Chosen Faith p. 5 (Unitarian Universalist, minister, author)
“Mysterious Presence, Source of all —
The world without, the soul within,...”
– Seth Curtis Beach (Unitarian, minister, author)
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.”
– Margaret Fuller Ossoli (Unitarian, Transcendentalist, author, editor)
“Oh heart, my heart, why flags thy force
Thus in the middle of my course
Midway...”
– E. Foxton (Sarah Hammond Palfrey) “Fainting at Noontide” (Unitarian, poet)
“Being all fashioned of the self-same must, let us be merciful as well as just.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Unitarian, poet)
“Ah, Love, the earth is woe’s
And sadly helpers needs:
And, till its burden...”
– Bernard O’Dowd, “Love and Sacrifice” (Rationalist, Free Religious Fellowship, Theosophist, activist, educator, poet, journalist, anarchist)
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“Anyone who saves a single soul - it is as though this person has saved an entire...”
– Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5
“A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most...”
– Dorothea Dix (Unitarian, reformer, educator)
“Church cannot be a place were we…come together once a week and enjoy our...”
– Caroline Bartlett Crane (Unitarian, minister, social reformer, club-woman)
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“The present, the present
Is all that thou hast
For thy sure possessing;
Like...”
– John Greenleaf Whittier
“We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge all around us; and the...”
– Maria Mitchell (Unitarian, astronomer, educator)
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“Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs”
– Charles Dickens (Unitarian, author, reformer)
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“Solidarity with others in community is the basis of incarnational love, not its...”
– David Augsburger, Dissident Discipleship p. 184
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“When I forgive, I go out to another and invite that one to walk with me into new...”
– Raymond John Baughan, The Breaking of Bread: Lenten Meditations 1951. Universalist Publishing House (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
“The work of the church is any community is not to be judged by a standard of...”
– Charles L. Hutchison, “Some Thoughts of a Business Man Concerning the Church” Good Tidings (1900) p. 97-8 (Universalist, lay leader, businessman)
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“Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by by others doing...”
– James Baldwin
“Real religion involves real courage.”
– Edson Russell Miles, The Price of Freedom: Lenten Manual 1944 (Universalist, Homiletics Professor at Theological School of St. Lawrence University 1917-48, minister)
“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning”
– James Russell Lowell (Unitarian, poet, reformer, statesman)
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“Justice is love operating at a distance.”
– Joseph Sittler 