February 2012
58 posts
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“No man is free to neglect his mind nor to be content when other men neglect...”
– Edson Russell Miles, The Price of Freedom: Lenten Manual 1944 (Universalist, Homiletics Professor at Theological School of St. Lawrence University 1917-48, minister)
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“On life’s eventful sea
May thy light bark gently glide,
And the...”
– Caroline Howard Gilman, “To_____” (Unitarian, poet)
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“No condition is unfavorable to virtue, where virtue is.”
– E. H. Chapin, Living Words (1861) p.28
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“Only one little sunbeam shining through one little window into one little room...”
– George L. Perin, “Universalism for the World,” Good Tidings (1900) p.144
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“The living soul stands rooted and reaching.”
– Francis C. Anderson, Jr. Greatly To Be: A Lenten Manual 1957. Universalist Church of America (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“All nights are sacred nights to make
Confession and resolve and prayer;
All...”
– Helen Hunt Jackson, “New Year’s Morning” (Unitarian, poet)
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“Love can triumph over hate,
but only if it is familiar to one’s heart...”
– Carl J. Nelson, Snow in April (1966) (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally...”
– Maria Mitchell (Unitarian, astronomer, educator, reformer)
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“Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and...”
– Horace Mann (Unitarian, educator, reformer)
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“We come to welcome and to be welcomed,
To build bridges over the chasms that...”
– Richard S. Gilbert, On The Cusp of Life (1997) (Unitarian Universalist, minister, social activist)
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“When we are tired with the work we have to do or feel unequal to it;
When we...”
– Vivian T. Pomeroy (Unitarian, Congregationalist, minister, children’s book author)
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“What more have we to give to one another than love and understanding?”
– Kenneth L. Patton, “Love and Understanding” (Unitarian Universalist, minister, poet)
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“And that a man should walk in dignity means that he live dangerously rather than...”
– Robert Terry Weston, “I Have Come To The Parting of Ways” (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“People in difficulty, namely most of us, need to know that it is all right to be...”
– Clarke Dewey Wells, The Strangeness of This Business (1975) (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“In a culture where the plastic smile is mandatory and cheap grace abounds, the...”
– Clarke Dewey Wells, The Strangeness of This Business (1975) (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“In a hundred ways, we need to learn the art of reconciliation. In our personal...”
– Max Kapp, Earth’s Common Things: A Lenten Manual for 1941 (Unitarian Universalist, minister, educator)
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“Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from...”
– E. H. Chapin, Living Words (1861) p. 26 (Universalist, minister)
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“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Unitarian, poet)
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“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your...”
– Charles Dickens (Unitarian, author, social reformer)
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“If a sacrament is an outward act or event by which an inward grace is...”
– James Freeman Clarke, Messages of Faith, Hope and Love (1905). Geo. H. Ellis, p.158 (Unitarian, minister, reformer)
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“My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be...”
– Frances Power Cobbe (Unitarian, social reformer, founder of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection)
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“While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the...”
– Dorothea Dix (Unitarian, social reformer)
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“We may prove deserters or traitors, and struggle to the rear during the...”
– Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (Universalist, suffragist, social reformer)
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“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (Unitarian, poet, editor)
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“Hate is a fence
restricting my good will to my own front yard.
Injustice is a...”
– Carl J. Nelson, “Beyond My Walls” Eternity Can Wait (1962) (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“We are ‘like the grass-blade,’ which helps the meadow to be a meadow, and our...”
– Hazel Ida Kirk (Universalist, author)
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“A stone upon my hand contains a treasury of secrets.
Raindrops splashing on my...”
– Carl J. Nelson, Snow in April (1996) (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“Love asks of us more stamina than we think we have,
Demands too much giving and...”
– Richard S. Gilbert, On the Cusp of Life (1997) p. 47 (Unitarian Universalist, social activist, minister)
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“A proper reverence for others cannot be expressed in terms of exact retribution...”
– Frank O. Holmes, My Heart Leaps Up: A Lenten Manual for 1956 (Unitarian, minister)
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“The church must minister to persons, help them in freedom develop their inner...”
– Edna Pearl Bruner (Unitarian Universalist, Universalist Church of America fieldworker, educator, minister)
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“Who then devised the torment? Love.
Love is the unfamiliar Name
Behind the...”
– T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding IV. (Anglican, Unitarian, poet, playwright, critic)
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“At every winding of the way,
I’ve sought for love and love have given;...”
– Frances Dana Barker Gage, Poems (1857) (Universalist, political activist, journalist, novelist, poet, abolitionist, temperance advocate)
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“Humility is teachableness…True science, true religion and true humility...”
– Max Kapp, Earth’s Common Things: A Lenten Manual 1941 (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man...”
– T. S. Eliot, (Anglican, Unitarian, playwright, poet, critic)
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“These same people would not say, ‘I believe in medicine but I do not believe in...”
– Gary James (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! we...”
– Maria Mitchell (Unitarian, astronomer, educator)
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“Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in...”
– P. T. Barnum (Universalist, entrepreneur)
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“The first evil of scolding is that it does no good, and is, therefore, a waste...”
– James Freeman Clarke, Messages of Hope, Faith & Love (1905) Geo. E. Ellis, p.217 (Unitarian, minister, reformer)
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“Knocking on nature’s door, we can find sanctuary and healing.”
– Herbert Hitchens, Address to the Living: A Lenten Manual. Beacon Press, 1940 (Unitarian, minister)
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“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”
– William Wordsworth (Unitarian, poet)
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“Love is not taught by language, but by working and living and striving together;...”
– Raymond John Baughan, The Breaking of Bread Together: Lenten Manual 1951. Universalist Publishing House (Universalist, minister)
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“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
– Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (Unitarian, author)
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“The banquet of life is here. It is not something we need to work for or wait...”
– Raymond John Baughan, The Breaking of Bread: Lenten Meditations 1951. Universalist Publishing House (Universalist, minister)
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“Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this – that you are dreadfully like...”
– James Russell Lowell (Unitarian, poet)
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“The greatest fast the world needs — that we all need - is to fast from...”
– Walter Henry Macpherson, A New Day Dawns: Lent 1946. Universalist Publishing House (Universalist, minister)
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“Life is love; only when we love, we live; he who loves the most is most alive.”
– James Freeman Clarke, Messages of Faith, Hope, and Love (1905) Boston: Geo. E. Ellis & Co., p.62 (Unitarian, minister, reformer)
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“February has a way
of turning a suggestion into saturation,
or a hint into a...”
– Carl J. Nelson, Snow in April (1966) (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“It is one of the great paradoxes of life that we do not attain wholeness of...”
– Leslie T. Pennington, The Disciplines of Freedom: Lent 1944 (Unitarian, minister)
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“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Unitarian, poet)
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“We die with the dying:
See, they depart, and we go with them.
We are born with...”
– T. S. Eliot, The Wasteland, V. (Anglican, Unitarian, poet)