July 2012
62 posts
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“As for the love of neighbor…Today, it cannot include for Muslims only...”
– Seyyed Hossein Nasr, “The Word of God: The Bridge Between Him, You, and Us,” A Common Word p.116-117
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“For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned, it is the season of...”
– Hasidic saying
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“Without awareness of one’s story or context a person can be whomever and...”
– Skye Jethani, The Divine Commodity p.40
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“Memory has the fragrance of a weeping night flower
Arousing in the exile’s...”
– Mahmoud Darwish, “Mural,” Unfortunately, It Was Paradise p.151
“Where the heart goes before, like a lamp, and illumines the pathway, many things...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Unitarian, poet)
“Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.”
– Amos Bronson Alcott (Unitarian, educator, philosopher, reformer)
“Here, in the loveliness of woods and shades,
Where the dark pine is sighing...”
– Sarah Edgerton Mayo, “Grover Worshippings,” (1843) Memoir of Mrs. S.C.E. Mayo with Selections from Her Writings p.182 (Universalist, poet, author)
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“Those who are happy are those who have learned to serve.”
– David Augsburger, Dissident Discipleship, p.147
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“Laughter is the beginning of prayer.”
– Reinhold Niebuhr
“Poetry is the utterance of truth, — deep, heartfelt truth. The true poet is very...”
– E. H. Chapin (Universalist, minister)
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“As regards the Qur’anic basis for the assertion that God is inherently and...”
– Reza Shah-Kazemi, “God, ‘The Loving’,” A Common Word p.103
“In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed...”
– George Bancroft (Unitarian, historian, statesman)
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“There is love like a small lamp, which goes out when the oil is consumed; or...”
– Saint Isaac of Ninevah
“I love all holy things that God has made,
But none, unshared, of sunshine or of...”
– Sarah Edgerton Mayo “Social Desires” (Universalist, poet, author)
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“al-Ghazzali relates that the Prophet (PBUH) commanded ‘Ali: “If you...”
– al-Ghazzali, On The 99 Beautiful Names of God, “Al-Maqsad”, 119
“A sturdy plant is a great comfort.”
– May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude (1973) (Unitarian Universalist, poet, author, educator)
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“Every single good thing you have is from God.”
– The Qur’an 16:53
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
– Charles Dickens (Unitarian, author, editor, reformer)
“There is no fear that imagination, reverence, or love of beauty will die from...”
– Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Theory of Teaching (1830) p.56 (Unitarian, educator, author)
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“There is something greater and purer than what the mouth utters. Silence...”
– Kahlil Gibran
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“Can you not see how God coined a similitude: A good word is as a good tree, its...”
– The Qur’an 14:24-25
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“To view hospitality as a means to an end, to use it instrumentally, is...”
– Christine Pohl, Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition p.144
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“We have been put on this earth for a little space that we might learn to bear...”
– William Blake
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“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
– Kahlil Gibran
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“But if you are unable to bridle your temper, censure yourself whenever you lose...”
– St. Gregory Palamas, Philokalia
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“Those who are touched by compassion discover life at its purest, honoring the...”
– Beth Witrogen McLeod, Caregiving: The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal p.22
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“The sharing of wisdom should be an enactment of neighborly love.”
– Miroslav Volf, A Public Faith (2011)
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“Even the most harried workdays become tolerable when you know a day of holy...”
– Rabbi Naomi Levy, To Begin Again (1998)
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“We can all achieve heights of which we never thought ourselves capable. All it...”
– Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, To Heal A Fractured World
“Loneliness is poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”
– May Sarton (Unitarian Universalist, author, social critic)
“My religion is founded on the love of God and my neighbor; on the hope of pardon...”
– John Adams (Unitarian, United States President 1797-1801, statesman, advocate)
“It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts”
– Adlai E. Stevenson (Unitarian Universalist, statesman)
“Surely joy is the condition of life. Think of the young fry that leap in ponds,...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Excursions (Transcendentalist, Unitarian, naturalist, philosopher, surveyor)
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“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live with and know we cannot live...”
– James Baldwin
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“As long as you are on the earth and you know it, you are where you are supposed...”
– Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith p.67
“Even in evil, that dark cloud which hangs over the creation, we discern rays of...”
– William Ellery Channing (Unitarian, minister)
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“Truth be told, we are all only lifeless graven images until we face another and,...”
– Lawrence Kushner, Comment on Exodus 25, Five Cities of Refuge
“One soweth, and another reapeth,” is a verity that applies to evil as well as...”
– George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (Unitarian, author)
“Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Unitarian, poet)
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“It is not half so important to know as to feel.”
– Rachel Carson, Sense of Wonder p.23
“And, where the gurgling brooklet streamed
The cricket’s ringing chiming seemed...”
– E. Foxton (Sarah Hammond Palfrey) “Light & Darkness”,Premices (Unitarian, poet)
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“Where one gram of love is sold, there one should give tons of faith.”
– Sultan Bahu, Sufi poet
“Peace finds you at the end of the day, when you have given and forgiven, when...”
– Raymond John Baughan, The Breaking of Bread: Lenten Meditations 1951. Universalist Publishing House (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“Humble humor takes life, death, faith, and human fallibility seriously - so...”
– David Augsburger, Dissident Discipleshipp.107
“Joy freed from the bond of earth’s slumber rushes into numberless leaves, and...”
– Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies (Brahmo Samaj, poet, novelist, playwright, reformer)
“Joy freed from the bond of earth’s slumber rushes into numberless leaves, and...”
– Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies (Brahmo Samaj, poet, novelist, playwright, reformer)
“…if you are sceptical as to the essential worth of Freedom, just allow yourself...”
– Horace Greeley (Universalist, journalist, editor, reformer)
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“Life has taught me that there is no salvation other than love”
– Frei Betto, Liberation Theologian
“While shallow, babbling brooks, elate
Still of their worthless pebbles prate;...”
– Frances Sargent Osgood, “A Comparison Between A Talkative Fool And A Silent Philosopher” (Unitarian, poet, author)
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“Count it all joy, my friends, when you meet trials of various kinds.”
– James 1:2 