Human beings are vessels of clay containing miracles of grace and redemption. If we make the effort, we can arrive at mutual understanding and collaboration as residents of the same planet.
Benigno P. Beltran, Faith and Struggle on Smokey Mountain
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair
Abraham Joshua Heschel
How frail the human heart must be – a mirrored pool of thought
As we come to know more about a place, we begin to see that we live in a humanity- nature matrix. We see how humans shape the landscape, contain nature, cultivate plants, and work in cooperation with the natural world
Carol Hepokoski, Along the Greener Path (Unitarian Universalist, minister, ecojustice advocate)
The little flower that opens in the meadows lives and dies in a season; but what agencies have concentrated themselves to produce it! So the human soul lives in the midst of heavenly help
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (Unitarian, educator, author)
Did I say that the most important thing…was to care for child development? It was a mistake. The most important thing is to work for better conditions for labor so that all may have a chance to be human and rear the human child tenderly and wisely
Mila Frances Tupper Maynard (Unitarian, minister, Christian Socialist, suffragist, reformer, author)
Universalism has not abolished the idea of hell. It has humanized and socialized it. It has established human misery as the direct effect or consequence of human action
Clarence Russell Skinner, The Social Implications of Universalism (1915) p. 63 (Universalist, educator, minister, theologian)
In the faces of men and women I see God
A. Eustace Haydon (Unitarian Universalist, Humanist, educator)
Out of the deep and endless universe
There came a greater Mystery, a Shape,
A Something sad, inscrutable, august –
One to confront the worlds and question them.
Edwin Markham, “Man,” The Man and the Hoe (1899): p. 60. (Universalist, poet, labor activist)
Out of the deep and endless universe
There came a greater Mystery, a Shape,
A Something sad, inscrutable, august –
One to confront the worlds and question them.
Edwin Markham, “Man,” The Man and the Hoe (1899): p. 60. (Universalist, poet, labor activist)To Tumblr, Love Pixel Union