August 2012
58 posts
“Swiftly my knitting needles fly;
The yarn, like time, sweeps through my...”
– Frances Dana Barker Gage, Poems (1867) p. 49 (Universalist, political activist, journalist, novelist, poet, abolitionist, temperance advocate)
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“One of the purposes of prayer is to give them the courage it takes to do what we...”
– Joan Chittister, OSB. The Breath of the Soul (2009) p. 122
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Review - Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death
Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death by Bernd Heinrich My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Tightly crafted essays illumine the necessary connections between life and death, namely, how matter is transformed from death into life. Heinrich’s writing, as ever in his books for general readers, is lyrical and accessible. The last essay wends into reflection on how we make meaning from life and death...
“The end of church-going is not to hear arguments and discussions about...”
– James Freeman Clarke, Messages on Faith, Hope & Love (1905) Boston, p.53 (Unitarian, minister, author)
“There are no “charity problems,” or “health problems,” or “school problems,” or...”
– Caroline Bartlett Crane (Unitarian, minister, social reformer, club-woman), quoted by Linda J. Rynbrandt, Caroline Bartlett Crane and Progressive Social Reform (via uuquotes)
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“The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.”
– Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays (1911)
“I remembered the gradual patience
That fell from that cloud like snow,
Flake...”
– James Russell Lowell, “The First Snowfall” (Unitarian, poet, reformer)
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“Do we dismiss the body’s wisdom because it does not use words? The...”
– Barbara Brown Taylor,An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith p.50
“It is rare that the summer lets an apple go without streaking or spotting it on...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Wild Apples (Unitarian, Transcendentalist, naturalist, surveyor, philosopher)
“What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more...”
– Harriet Martineau (Unitarian, journalist, author, reformer)
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“Poetry can break open locked chambers of possibility, restore numbed zones to...”
– Adrienne Rich, What is Found There (1983)
“Education keeps the key of life: and a liberal education insures the first...”
– Julia Ward Howe (Unitarian, author, social reformer)
“Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.”
– Horace Mann (Unitarian, educator, reformer)
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“..in making a brakha [blessing] we separate out time before we consume, use, or...”
– Rabbi Marcia Prager, The Path of Blessing
“Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will...”
– Clara Barton (Universalist, founder of American Red Cross, reformer, humanitarian)
“Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives...”
– George Bancroft (Unitarian, historian, statesman)
“Experience, when we are true to it, always comes with surprise and shows us that...”
– Raymond John Baughan, The Breaking of Bread: Lenten Meditations 1951 (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
“Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come...”
– Abraham Lincoln, Letter to James C. Conkling, August 26, 1863
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“Creativity and contemplative spirituality nurture and support each other in...”
– Christine Valters Painter, The Artist’s Rule
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“The older we get, the more extraordinary life becomes — and the more...”
– Rabbi Shira Milgrom,Four Centuries (1992)
“Our line of fear is ultimately our line of growth.”
– Terry Tempest Williams, interview with Krista Tippett February 3, 2011
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“It is not as difficult to let go of some possessions if the people around us who...”
– Christine Pohl, Making Room: Recovering Hospitality As a Christian Tradition, p.117
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“What a strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, the other forward....”
– Grandma Moses
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“And don’t we all, with fierce hunger, crave a cave of solitude, a space of...”
– Macrina Wienderkehr
“The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through...”
– Rabindranath Tagore,Gitanjali(Brahmo Samaj, reformer, author, playwright, poet)
“Oe’r waves that murmur ever nigh
My window opening toward the deep,
The...”
– E. Foxton (Sarah Hammond Palfrey) “The Lighthouse” (Unitarian, poet)
“Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to...”
– Margaret Fuller Ossoli (Unitarian, Transcendentalist, editor, author, reformer)
“Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.”
– Simone Signoret
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“Loving one’s neighbor is not a matter of privilege but a divinely ordained...”
– Hi Excellency Judge Bola Abdul Jabbar Ajibola, “The Concept of Loving Neighbor in the Qur’an and Hadith,” A Common Word p.120
“Only with improvisation,
imagination and risk
can we interpret
legacy.
Only...”
– Margaret Randall, Ruins (2012) p. 39
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“Love is as strong as death.”
– Song of Songs 8:6
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“Good deeds, kindnesses, forgivenesses, tolerance, acts of love — none of...”
– Hazrat Inayat Khan, In The Eastern Rose Garden
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“Humility is at the core of the path of love”
– Noah Levine, The Heart of the Revolution (2011) p. 95
“It is not a bad exercise for a man to sit quiet once in a while and watch the...”
– Carl Sandburg (Unitarian Universalist, folklorist, labor activist, poet)
“All love is grace. It is never deserved. Nobody ever deserved to be loved; but...”
– James Freeman Clarke,Messages of Faith, Hope, and Love(1905) p.203 (Unitarian, author, reformer, minister)
“A thousand half-loves must be surrendered to take a whole heart home”
– Rumi
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“…commitment to the properly understood love of God and neighbor makes...”
– Miroslav Volf, “A Common Word for a Common Future,” A Common Word: Muslims and Christians on Loving God and Neighbor, p.24
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“The heavens declare the glory of the Holy, and the firmament shows its...”
– Psalm 19
“And worship God, and associate nothing with Him. Be kind to parents, and near...”
– the Qur’an: Sura an-Nisa’ 4:36
“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a...”
– Sholem Asch
“Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of...”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne (Unitarian, Transcendentalist, author)
“The obligation of memory is twofold. The commandment lirot et atzmo, “to...”
– Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Where Justice Dwells (2011) p.6
“In memory, everything seems to happen to music.”
– Tennessee Williams
“Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with...”
– Harriet Martineau (Unitarian, journalist, author, reformer)
“Religion, like education, demands faith in the capacity of the individual soul....”
– Francis Greenwood Peabody, The Religion of an Educated Man (1903) p. 20 (Unitarian, educator, minister)
“It is reported on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah (may...”
– Hadith reported by Bukhari and Muslim
“I have come back to my solitude, my joy, and I am sure these radiant skies have...”
– May Sarton (Unitarian Universalist, poet, novelist, essayist, critic, educator)
“And forever and forever,
As long as the river flows,
As long as the heart has...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Bridge” (Unitarian, poet)
“Now is the time to remember that all you do is sacred”
– Hafiz
“There are always fragments of good in every human heart”
– James Freeman Clarke, Messages of Faith, Hope, and Love (1905) p. 133 (Unitarian, minister, reformer) 