Religion is our human response to the dual reality of being alive and having to die
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F. Forrester Church, Our Chosen Faith p. 5 (Unitarian Universalist, minister, author)
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It is in our liberal religious bloodline to gather and organize ourselves as a prophetic church, a religious community that seeks to intervene in human history for the sake of social justice.
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Richard S. Gilbert (Unitarian Universalist, minister, social activist)
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress
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Charles Dickens (Unitarian, author, reformer)
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By dehumanizing the Otherness we dehumanize ourselves.
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Clarke Wells, The Strangeness of this Business (1975) Unitarian Universalist Association (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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There is never an end to our yearning to know the unknown after all our labor at learning. There is never an end to our trying the untried after all our failures in striving.
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Sophia Lyon Fahs, “In Faith,” Imprints of the Divine: A Lenten Meditation Manual for 1960 (Unitarian Universalist, educator, author, minister)
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Perfection is not ours to have…to aspire to perfection is to doom ourselves to the kind of failure that can lead either to depression or to despair – neither of which is healthy.
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Joan Chittister, Uncommon Gratitude: Alleluia For All That Is (2010) p.96 (via revnaomiking)
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Work as if there were no working and give as though there were no giving. Love, not religion, but one another.
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Raymond John Baughan,The Breaking of Bread: Lenten Meditations 1951. Universalist Publishing House (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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Education is not merely instruction, or the building up of the scholar’s mind; the bringing the mind to self-consciousness; the birth of the intellectual life…The end of education is not information, but inspiration; not facts, rules, tables, but insight, initiative, grasp, growth, character, power.
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Frances Greenwood Peabody, The Religion of an Educated Man (1903) (Unitarian, educator, ethicist)
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Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed in remedies of low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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Benjamin Rush (Universalist, physician, member of American Constitutional Convention 1787)
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Spiritual greatness lies not in extraordinary capacities and deeds, but in doing ordinary things among ordinary people with certain qualities of faith, hope, and love.
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Harry C. Meserve, Imprints of the Divine: Lenten Manual for 1960 (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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