When you take on some leadership responsibility in the world, you must accept the fact that you will change lives. You will change the status quo by representing justice or compassion or love. And changes spread from you will be easier to happen again in others because of you. — Doris "Granny D"...

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? — Eleanor Roosevelt In Today's Workshop... We examined forgiveness in different situations: from the viewpoint of an individual in the criminal justice system, to nations seeking forgiveness...

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. — Audre Lorde In Today's Workshop... We explored the...

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. — George Bernard Shaw In Today's Workshop... We explored the importance of imagination when creating justice in the world. We learned about climate change and the...

Peace begins with yourself, with the way you treat your family, your friends, your communities, your country—but it does not stop there. Peace that begins in the hearts of children can cover the whole world. — Mayerly, 14, Colombian Children's Movement for Peace In Today's Workshop... We learned...

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha In Today's Workshop... We explored what is meant by abundance and scarcity....

Though force can protect in an emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration, and cooperation can finally lead (people) to the dawn of eternal peace. — President Dwight Eisenhower In Today's Workshop... We talked about cooperation as a way to create more justice in the world. We heard a story...

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I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me. — Terence, Roman playwright and freed slave In Today's Workshop... We examined the role empathy plays in social justice by looking at current immigration issues. We discussed yet another way that language influences how we think about justice...

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. — Helen Keller In Today's Workshop... We explored different ways to reach new understanding, including reading or hearing true-life accounts and communicating with non-violent or giraffe language....

May your life preach more loudly than your lips. — William Ellery Channing In Today's Workshop... We talked about the moral arc of the universe bending toward justice with our help and the help of those who came before us. Some of those were our Unitarian Universalist ancestors. We heard a story...

Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice? — Diane Glancy, Cherokee poet In Today's Workshop... We heard a story about the importance of being aware, both with what we are experiencing firsthand and with the root causes of what we are experiencing. We also discovered a way to imagine how we...

The mechanics of the Mobius strip are mysterious, but its message clear: whatever is inside us continually flows outward to help form, or deform, the world — and whatever is outside us continually flows inward to help form, or deform, our lives. — Parker Palmer, Quaker educator and spiritual...

Say your truth - kindly, but fully and completely. Live your truth - gently, but totally and consistently. Change your truth easily and quickly when your experience brings you new clarity. — Neale Donald Walsch, author of the series "Conversations with God" In Today's Workshop... We talked about...

A covenanted free church is a body of individuals who have freely made a profoundly simple promise, a covenant: We pledge to walk together in the spirit of mutual love. The spirit of love is alone worthy of our ultimate, our religious loyalty....

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. — Audre Lorde, writer, poet, and activist In Today's Workshop... We explored issues of identity, tolerance, and intolerance. We learned about the historical and theological...

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. — Nelson Mandela, former South African President, anti-apartheid activist, and advocate of democracy In Today's Workshop... We learned about the historic struggle for...

My religious superstitions gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion, as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more and more happy, day by day. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 19th century Unitarian suffragist and author of The Woman's Bible In Today's...

I walked through my house in the dark, found my piano, and that was my prayer: May I not drop out. It was not written, but prayed. I knew more than anything that I wanted to continue in faith with the movement. — Carolyn McDade, about the night she wrote "Spirit of Life" In Today's Workshop... We...

In the depths of my soul There where lies the source of my strength, Where the divine and the human meet, There, quiet your mind, quiet, quiet. Outside let lightning reign, Horrible darkness frighten the world. But from the depths of your own soul From that silence will rise again God's flower.