Forrest Church Quotes

#1. None of us is fully able to perceive the truth that shines through another person's window, nor the falsehood that we may perceive as truth. Thus, we can easily mistake another's good for evil, and our own evil for good.

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#2. We don't only invent God; we also discover God. Looking at the creation, we strive to deduce the nature of the creator. We take familiar images of power and expand them until they become big enough to encompass the divine.

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#3. The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for ... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.

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#4. We Unitarian Universalists have inherited a magnificent theological legacy. In a sweeping answer to creeds that divide the human family, Unitarianism proclaims that we spring from a common source; Universalism, that we share a common destiny.

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#5. God seeks us as eagerly as we seek God.

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#6. The world does not owe us a living, we owe the world a living, our own.

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#7. Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

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#8. Remember, Angels are both God's messengers and God's message, witness to eternity in time, to the presence of the divine amidst the ordinary. Every moment of every day is riddled by their traces.

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#9. Want what you have. Do what you can. Be who you are.

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