Perfection is not reached by a sudden leap; nor hopeless wickedness by a sudden fall Marion D. Shutter, Justice and Mercy (1894) p.30 (Universalist, clergy, theologian)
Risk must be evaluated not by the fear it generates in you or the probability of your success, but by the value of the goal. John C. Maxwell, Failing Forward p.123
Conscience…prepares the mind to act and to suffer beyond almost all other causes Daniel Webster, “First Settlement of New England, Delivered 22 December 1820” (Unitarian, statesman, U.S. Senator)
For those whose life is centered in prayer, prayer is time for resting in God. Joan Chittister, OSB - Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir
We cannot be tactful with those whose point of view we fail to understand, or do not even strive to understand Mary Ellen Richmond, Friendly Visiting Among the Poor (1906) p.14 (Unitarian, social worker, author, a developer of social work and research)
We are not that we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for that we are capable of being. Henry David Thoreau (Transcendentalist, Unitarian, surveyor, philosopher, naturalist)
The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work Harriet Martineau, Household Education (Unitarian, author, reformer, journalist)
Truth loves its limits, for there it meets the beautiful. Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies (Brahmo Samaj, nationalist, poet, playwright, reformer)
There is an inextricable link between cultural and biological diversity. International Society of Ethnobiology, Declaration of Belém 1988
