Unitarian Universalist Quotes

To commit to creating a prophetic congregation today is to grapple with what it means to take responsibility for cocreating the holy right here on earth.

We are not human because we think. We are human because we care. All true meaning is shared meaning.

Memory is the servant of conscience.

Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy.

It isn't love that makes the world go round but compassion -- starting over in gentleness when love hasn't been enough or other factors have failed: a gentle refusal to blame oneself or others and just begin again.

Men have never done much when the heart has been cold; and what have they not done, what have they not subdued, when the heart has been quickened to generous emotions? To rob religion of sensibility is to make it inert and unproductive.

We are often called to do the difficult, if not the seemingly impossible, and it is vital to our spiritual growth that we not ignore these challenges.

My stake is humanity. I always try to be clear that I'm here to be in service to the city. My spirit is being fulfilled in ways that I couldn't buy.

Failure may be no disgrace, indeed failure in one sense of another is the lot of all. Failure may be honorable. Failure is oftentimes complimentary. Failure is always relative.

To grow restless with who we are helps us move toward our ideals. Perfection is impossible, but we all have the potential to be more patient, more compassionate, more open-minded.

That's what it means to plant -- to give the seed to the earth and to trust the goodness that made and sustains this earth, to work good beyond our vision and control.

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

Love and truth are indeed...the rules of mortal life, and cruelty and falsehood...no more than exceptions. But they are exceptions so common and so great that they must needs be given a large space in every just view of man's existence.

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.

If sorrow come -- resist it not, Nor yet bow weakly to it; Look up to meet the Heaven-sent storm; But see the rainbow thro' it!

Traveling would be quite perfect, if only one could go home at night.

The greatest of all warriors that went to the siege of Troy had not the pre-eminence because Nature had given him strength and he carried the largest bow, but because self-discipline had taught him how to bend it.