Carter Heyward Quotes

#1. Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.

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#2. In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period.

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#3. To say I love you is to say that you are not mine, but rather your own.

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#4. Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.

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#5. Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.

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#6. The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts.

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#7. Sometimes we have to fall down before we can stand up.

Liesl Shurtliff

#8. If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

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#9. I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us would love to call us priestesses. They can call us all the names in the world
it's better than being invisible.

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#10. But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is, by definition, uncertainty. It is full of doubt, steeped in risk. It is about matters not of the known, but of the unknown.

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#11. Qualities that the world considers virtues will lead a leader to ruin, while those regarded as vices will often bring safety and prosperity. Good leadership requires a prince to "know how to do evil.

Ross King

#12. It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

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#13. DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

Ambrose Bierce

#14. For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower, bringing us into our own together, a god whose name in history is love ...

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#15. His tongue claimed her, letting her know she was his, which was exactly what she wanted to be.

Cat Johnson

#16. But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant!
Not what he pleases, but what he can.

George MacDonald

#17. To forgive is not to forget, but rather to re-member whatever has been dismembered.

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#18. I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.

Katharine Hepburn

#19. Faith is the new, the mysterious, the surprising. Nobody has ever been there before.

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#20. We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place as simply "inside myself." Nor is any person, creed, ideology, or movement entirely "outside myself."

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#21. Lovers re-create the world.

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#22. When my faith is getting weak
And I feel like giving in
You breathe into me again ...

Karen Marie Moning

#23. The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the world.

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#24. God reveals herself through our relationships not only to other people but also to other creatures and nature.

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