Quotes About Unitarianism

#1. He [Erasmus Darwin] used to say that 'unitarianism was a feather-bed to catch a falling Christian.

Charles Darwin

#2. 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.

Forrest Church

#3. Don't Call Us Wahhabis!" The term Wahhabi is actually offensive to Wahhabis themselves, as it suggests that they venerate Wahhab, the prophet, rather than God. Wahhabis refer to their own religious affiliation as Muwahiddin ("Unitarianism").

Edward Trimnell

#4. I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#5. He's heard Unitarianism called a featherbed for falling Christians, but his mother doesn't seem like a woman who has fallen anywhere. (Where is the featherbed for falling Unitarians, he wonders? Such as himself.) [From "Life Before Man," 1979)

Margaret Atwood

#6. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

Theodore Parker

#7. My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

Ted Koppel

#8. I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.

C.S. Lewis

#9. Another one of President Barack Obama's nominees is having tax issues, which proves one thing: The Democrats like raising the taxes, but they hate paying them.

Craig Ferguson

#10. When I think of the most able students I have encountered in my teaching - I mean those who have distinguished themselves not only by skill but by independence of thought - then I must confess that all have had a lively interest in epistemology.

Albert Einstein

#11. I would love to play the drums with 'The Who.'

Tom Curren

#12. A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves in almost everything that anybody else believes, and he has a very lively sustaining faith in he doesn't quite know what.

W. Somerset Maugham

#13. The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.

Seth Godin

#14. What an inevitable waste it seems. Death begets death begets death. I

Pierce Brown

#15. Mirages are things that aren't really there that you can see very clearly."
"How do you see something that isn't there?" ...
"sometimes it's much simpler than seeing things that are" ...

Norton Juster

#16. The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy ... Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.

Thomas Jefferson

#17. Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Ogden Nash

#18. I do think that maybe, even subconsciously, a lot of parents in the West are wondering, have we gone too far in the direction of coddling and protecting - you know, you see kids, sometimes that seem very rude and disrespectful. And the more important thing is they don't seem that happy.

Amy Chua

#19. There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

Idries Shah