June 2012
98 posts
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“Zakat are only for the poor and needy, and the workers who administer them, and...”
– The Qur’an 9:60
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“Even the briefest moment of silence is both a way of coming into the present and...”
– Jon Kabat-Zinn, Arriving At Your Own Door
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“The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears...”
– Jimmy Carter, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002
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“Whenever we are able to live for a moment within that consciousness of the...”
– Starhawk, The Earth Path p.28
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“A soul ablaze with divine love cannot be manufactured or mass produced”
– Skye Jethani, Divine Commodity p. 97
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“To the prospects of the sufferers of society let the observer look; and he will...”
– Harriet Martineau, How to Observe Morals and Manners (1838) p. 129 (Unitarian, journalist, author, reformer)
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“It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.”
– Horace Mann (Unitarian, educator, reformer)
“Every human soul has the germ of some flowers within; and they would open if...”
– Lydia Maria Child (Unitarian, novelist, social reformer)
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“All my life I had feared being vulnerable…And I had done my best to...”
– Sue Bender, Stretching Lessons p.124
“However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Unitarian, poet)
“[Conscience is] no infallible oracle out of the breast.”
– Frederic Henry Hedge (Transcendentalist, Unitarian, minister)
“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.”
– Lydia Maria Child (Unitarian, abolitionist, author, reformer)
“When God would educate man He compels him to learn bitter lessons. He sends him...”
– Celia Burleigh (Unitarian, minister)
“Out of the well of serenity comes a cool water with starlight shining in its...”
– Max Kapp, Earth’s Common Things: Lenten Manual 1941 (Unitarian Universalist, minister, educator)
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“…wherever you are, your heart can be free.”
– Jack Kornfield in The Heart of the Revolution (2011) by Noah Levine
“The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Unitarian, poet)
“Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.”
– Anna Laetitia Barbauld (Unitarian, poet, author, educator)
“Conscience enables us not merely to learn the right by experiment and induction,...”
– Theodore Parker (Transcendentalist, Unitarian, abolitionist, reformer, minister)
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“Sabbath honors the necessary wisdom of dormancy..We, too, must have a period in...”
– Wayne Muller, Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives p. 7
“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to...”
– Carl Sandburg (Unitarian, poet, folklorist, labor rights activist)
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“The belief in spiritual freedom does not have to mean an indifference to the...”
– Aung San Suu Kyi, Reith Lecture June 28, 2011
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“Action really receives its character from prayer. Prayer is what attests the...”
– Jacques Ellul, Prayer and Modern Man
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“Awe includes dancing with terror. It is the lack of awe that bores us, and we...”
– Matthew Fox, The Reinvention of Work p.98
“Amy March: “Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such...”
– Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (Unitarian, author)
“To test the morals and manners of a nation by a reference to the essentials of...”
– Harriet Martineau, How To Observe Manners and Morals (1838) (Unitarian, author, reformer)
“The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have...”
– Charles Dickens (Unitarian, author, reformer)
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“The meaning of life is to live life as it is a work of art. You’re not a...”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel, NBC interview with Carl Stern, 1972
“Conscience is the ought to which every human mind assents.”
– James Eddy, Thoughts on Religion and Morality (1927) (Unitarian, Free Religious, entrepreneur, engraver, art curator, abolitionist, temperance advocate, social reformer)
“The daily business of life is imperative, and calls for immediate attention”
– Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, The Story of My Life p. viii (Universalist, abolitionist, social reformer, author, minister)
“When the heart is persuaded, it knows no sacrifice. In giving and forgiving, we...”
– Raymond John Baughan, The Breaking of Bread: Lenten Meditations 1951. Universalist Publishing House (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
“Discipline, while never welcomed or enjoyed, is an almost indispensable element...”
– Charles A. Murdock, The Pacific Unitarian (December 1914) p. 1 (Unitarian, editor)
“The surest test of discipline is its absence.”
– Clara Barton (Universalist, founder of American Red Cross, reformer, humanitarian)
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“Love means having respect for the freedom and integrity of the other…Love...”
– Harvey Cox, “Love and Speech,” A Common Word p.163
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“We need a deep acceptance of ourselves — of all that is there, known and...”
– Tilden Edwards, Living Simply Through The Day p.45
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“Rightly understood, politics is no game at all. It is the ancient and honorable...”
– Parker Palmer, Healing the Heart of Democracy p.7
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
– Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies (Brahmo Samaj, poet, reformer, nationalist, author)
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“Vulnerability is a context in which theology ought to be done, because...”
– Carter Heyward, God in the Balance (2002) p. 19
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent...”
– Charles Darwin (Unitarian, naturalist, author On the Origin of Species)
“And each life shall burn with a light of its own and not be quenched,
Though...”
– Robert Terry Weston (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“The truth is that love makes us answerable for joy. Only selfishness gives us...”
– Joan Chittister, OSB Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir
“Poetry, like chamber music, thrives best on a few listeners, but those one or...”
– May Sarton, Plant Dreaming Deep (1968) p. 81 (Unitarian Universalist, poet, essayist, novelist)
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“Only someone who submits to the authority of the universal order and of...”
– Vaclav Havel, Speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia 1994
“Sail forth — steer for the deep waters only,
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I...”
– Walt Whitman (Unitarian, poet)
“Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of...”
– George Bancroft (Unitarian, historian, statesman)
“The history of the world goes to show that scenes of blood only harden the...”
– Charles Spear, Essays on the Punishment of Death (1844) p. 65 (Universalist, death penalty abolitionist, reformer, minister)
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“On the path of loving-kindness, it is important to remember that the unpleasant...”
– Noah Levine, The Heart of the Revolution (2011) p.97
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Building A Consistent Social Media Ministry
Good social media ministries of faith development, social justice, pastoral care, multifaith dialogue, and spiritual practices all share three elements: (1) consistency over the long haul, (2) interaction with a community of followers, and (3) interaction with those the ministries follow and their peers. Each piece of the social media ministry takes care and attention. This week, let’s focus on...
“Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.”
– Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase (Unitarian, author)
“Only those who learn how to live with solitude can come to know themselves and...”
– Carl Sandburg (Unitarian Universalist, poet, folklorist, labor rights activist)
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