Posts tagged unitarian
Posts tagged unitarian
To stir the secret depths of our hearts, writers must have penetrated deeply into their own.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Freedom is worth nothing in a country that condones slavery.
Belief is many things and so is disbelief. But religion is something that happens to you when you open your mind to truth, your conscience to justice, and your heart to love
I am convinced that, in accordance with the whole of Providence, every radically important relationship of humanity is, and must be, embodied in an external institution
I accept the Universe!” - Margaret Fuller Ossoli - to which Thomas Carlyle commented to Ralph Waldo Emerson, “By gad, she better!
The great end in religious instructions, is not to stamp our minds upon the young, but to stir up their own; not to make them see with our eyes, but to look inquiringly and steadily with their own; not to give them a definite amount of knowledge, but to inspire a fervent love of truth; not to form an outward regularity, but to touch inward springs; not to bind them by ineradicable prejudices to our particular sect or peculiar notions, but to prepare them for impartial, conscientious judging of whatever subjects may be offered to their decision; not to burden the memory, but to quicken and strengthen the power of though; not to impose religion upon them in the form of arbitrary rules, but to awaken the conscience, the moral discernment. In a word, the great end is to awaken the soul, to bring understanding, conscience and heart into earnest vigorous action on religious and moral truth, to excite and cherish spiritual life
Being all fashioned of the self-same must, let us be merciful as well as just.
