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Love is metaphysical gravity.
– R Buckminster Fuller,
American architect, Mensa president & Unitarian
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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to focus.
– Alexander Graham Bell, scientist, inventor of the telephone, & Unitarian agnostic
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Being a humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
– Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist & Unitarian Universalist
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Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transcendentalist & Unitarian minister, Divinity School Address, 1838
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I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
– Susan B. Anthony,
American abolitionist, women’s suffrage leader, & Unitarian
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
– Frank Lloyd Wright,
American architect & Unitarian Universalist
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We are not human because we think. We are human because we care.
– Forrest Church, UU minister and author
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Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but … read more.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach – and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not … read more.
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Well I got a hammer, and I got a bell, and I got a song to sing all over this land.
It’s the hammer of Justice. It’s the bell of Freedom. It’s the song about Love, between my brothers and my sisters all over this … read more.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
– Frank Lloyd Wright,
American architect & Unitarian Universalist
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We’re going to change the world.
— Viola Liuzzo, Civil Rights activist and Unitarian Universalist at the Civil Rights March on Selma, 1965
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
– Ray Bradbury, American author & Unitarian
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Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.
– William Ellery Channing,
19th century Unitarian preacher
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We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be, at heart, on the side of truth.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unitarian Universalist
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The birds who go on singing to their mates in peace, war, peace,
The ten-cent crocus bulb blooming in a used-car salesroom,
The horseshoe over the door, the luckpiece in the pocket,
The kiss and the comforting laugh and resolve—
Hope is an echo, … read more.