December 2011
62 posts
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“The beginning is always today”
– Mary Wallstonecraft (Unitarian, author, social critic)
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“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday”
– Charles Lamb (Unitarian, author)
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“To be free is not to be exempt from laws, but to be under those which are based...”
– Otis Ainsworth Skinner, “Christian Liberty,” Universalist Quarterly (October 1849) p. 371 (Universalist, minister, President of Lombard University, educator, editor, author)
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“Suddenly again it came to me to see that Love is greater than Knowledge; that it...”
– Frances Power Cobbe (Unitarian, philosopher, social reformer)
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“Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable...”
– Louisa May Alcott, Abbot’s Ghost: A Christmas Story (Unitarian, author)
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“The religious need of any time is its vital need.”
– Anna Garlin Spencer, Bell Street Chapel Discourses 1889-1899, p.30 (Unitarian, minister, reformer)
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“Blessed are those who dream, for some of their dreams will come true.”
– Harry Meserve (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“You can’t do good with a bad action.”
– Julia Ward Howe (Unitarian, author, social reformer)
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“Although Jesus told the Roman governor that he was born and came into the world...”
– Hosea Ballou, “Suggestions Concerning the Teachings of Jesus Christ,” Universalist Quarterly (july 1849), p.264 (Universalist, minister)
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“It should be the province of religion to unite, and not to separate, men and...”
– Fannie Barrier Williams, speaking about churches closing their doors to African Americans (Unitarian, educator, social activist, clubwoman, journalist, founder of the National League of Colored Women)
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“Help us be brave enough for life and love, and guide us in our search through...”
– A. Powell Davies (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year.”
– Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (Unitarian, author, reformer)
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“I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old familiar carols play,
When wild...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Unitarian, poet)
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“Yet with the woes of sin and strife
the world has suffered long;
Beneath the...”
– Edmund Hamilton Sears, It Came Upon A Midnight Clear (Unitarian, minister, poet)
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“The innkeeper did not know his great chance was coming. We do not always...”
– Albert F. Ziegler (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“The nicest gifts people have given me have been enabling, confirming gifts,...”
– Clark Dewey Wells, Sunshine and Rain At Once (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“Let us open our hearts to Christmas. Open them to all the hope that stands...”
– A. Powell Davies (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone calling...”
– Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux (Unitarian Universalist, author)
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“To feel compassion is to become kin to all humanity.”
– Regina Cary Lapoint, 1953 Advent Meditations (Unitarian Universalist, Universalist, educator, lay leader)
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“Winter is a table set with ice and starlight.”
– Greta W. Crosby (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“Come, let’s wiggle our toes & look sunward. The long, easy day is...”
– Regina Cary Lapoint, 1953 Advent Meditations (Unitarian Universalist, Universalist, educator, lay leader, poet)
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“Against the darkness nature brings
We bring our light,
Our tallest candles...”
– Ernest Sommerfeld (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“Miracles are to come”
– e.e. cummings (Unitarian, poet, painter)
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“Christmas is not so much a matter of explanation and interpretation as it is a...”
– Gordon B. McKeeman (Unitarian Universalist, minister, educator)
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“From within this world, my despair is transformed to hope, and I begin anew the...”
– Thandeka (Unitarian Universalist, theologian, minister)
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“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish...”
– Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (Unitarian, author, reformer)
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“No theology or cherished church doctrine has a monopoly on kindness and...”
– Robert Nelson West (Unitarian Universalist, UUA President 1969-1977)
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“The ability to accept what is given by others with grace is the most critical...”
– Marcella Walker McGee (Unitarian Universalist, justice organizer)
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“Still through the cloven skies they come,
With peaceful wings unfurled,
And...”
– Edmund Hamilton Sears (Unitarian, minister, poet)
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“A thousand little streams have helped to swell the tide which has uplifted the...”
– Harriet Jane Robinson (Universalist, Unitarian, millworker, poet, reformer)
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“Let us do our duty in our shop or kitchen; in the market, the street, the...”
– Theodore Parker (Unitarian, Transcendentalist, abolitionist, minister, reformer)
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“‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense and have her nonsense...”
– Charles Lamb (Unitarian, author)
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“The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural...”
– Gyorgy Kepes (Unitarian, artist)
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“Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.”
– Fannie Farmer (Unitarian, home economist, educator)
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“But however these two great principles of life – gratitude for the present and...”
– Anna Garlin Spencer, Bell Street Chapel Discourses, 1889-1899 p.32 (Unitarian, minister, reformer)
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“Religion is the fullest sharing of life with others”
– Kenneth Patton, Beyond Doubt (1946) p. 15. (Unitarian Universalist, minister, poet)
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“I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time;...”
– Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (Unitarian, author, reformer)
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“We want more soul, a higher cultivation of all spiritual faculties. We need more...”
– Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Unitarian, suffragist, abolitionist, author, educator)
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“If any of you have any quarrels, or misunderstandings, or coolnesses, or cold...”
– Elizabeth Gaskell, Christmas Storms & Sunshine (Unitarian, author, reformer)
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“I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has...”
– May Sarton (Unitarian Universalist, poet, critic)
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“Make the world better.”
– Lucy Stone. Her last words. (Unitarian, abolitionist, suffragist, author, lecturer, reformer)
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“Though a life be hectic with controversy & opposition, if the purpose is...”
– Albert F. Ziegler (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“Every nation must learn that all the people of the nations are children of God...”
– Olympia Brown (Universalist, minister, reformer)
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“We can’t think of civil rights as the cry or need of any one group of people but...”
– Margaret Mosely (Unitarian Universalist, civil rights activist, peace activist)
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“It remains to us, in the pursuance of our great purpose, as the chief burden of...”
– T. P. Abell, “Sermon,” Twelve Sermons Delivered at the Universalist Convention, 1853. p.36 (Universalist, minister)
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“Once in a while it may seem like too much – but I recommend involvement as a...”
– Gladys Emily Townsend (Unitarian Universalist, social worker, minister, social reformer, educator)
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“Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh
O’er the fields we go...”
– James Lord Pierpont (Unitarian, composer, musician)
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“As long as the people are asking ‘Where to? What next?’ they are still searching...”
– Dorothy Mary Tilden Spoerl (Unitarian Universalist, community worker, religious educator, author, editor)
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“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that...”
– Charles Dickens (Unitarian, author, reformer)
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“Every human soul, if religiously inspired, will feel that is has a single and...”
– Julia Ward Howe (Unitarian, author, social reformer)