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The power to question is the basis of all human progress. — Indira Gandhi I became convinced that non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a...Taking It Home | November 8, 2014 | For Grades 4-5, Families | From Toolbox of FaithCurriculum page -
The price of the democratic way of life is a growing appreciation of people's differences, not merely as tolerable, but as the essence of a rich and rewarding human experience. — Jerome Nathanson (1908-1975), a leader of New York Ethical Culture Democracy means not "I am as good as you are," but...Taking It Home | November 8, 2014 | For Families | From Toolbox of FaithCurriculum page
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Beauty without expression is boring. — Ralph Waldo Emerson IN TODAY'S SESSION . . . The paintbrush symbolizes personal expression of our inner life and thoughts....Taking It Home | November 8, 2014 | For Grades 4-5, Families | From Toolbox of FaithCurriculum page
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Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sounds of silence. — Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, "Sounds of Silence" IN TODAY'S SESSION . . .Taking It Home | November 8, 2014 | For Families | From Toolbox of FaithCurriculum page
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The bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you refuse to take the turn. — Anonymous IN TODAY'S SESSION . . . Duct tape was explored as a symbol for flexibility, a tool we find in our Unitarian Universalist faith....Taking It Home | November 8, 2014 | For Families | From Toolbox of FaithCurriculum page
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What's very important to me is when Dumbledore says that you have to choose between what is right and what is easy. This is the setup for the next three books. All of them are going to have to choose, because what is easy is often not right. -- J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, in...Taking It Home | November 8, 2014 | For Grades 4-5, Families | From Toolbox of FaithCurriculum page
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It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success. — George Washington Carver (1864-1943), horticulturist, chemist and educator who started...Taking It Home | November 8, 2014 | For Grades 4-5, Families | From Toolbox of FaithCurriculum page
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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. — Edward Everett Hale IN TODAY'S SESSION......Taking It Home | November 8, 2014 | For Grades 2-3, Families | From Moral TalesCurriculum page -
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being. — Mohandas K. Gandhi IN TODAY'S SESSION We talked about the importance of making choices that bring peace and do not harm others. After hearing a story in...Taking It Home | November 8, 2014 | For Grades 2-3, Families | From Moral TalesCurriculum page
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Who cared if there was really any Being to pray to? What mattered was the sense of giving thanks and praise, the feeling of a humble and grateful heart. — Oliver Sacks In Today's Session... The children heard the story, "A Sword of Wood," about a Jewish man whose faith is tested by a shah....Taking It Home | November 8, 2014 | For Grades 2-3, Families | From Moral TalesCurriculum page
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Why look for truth in distant lands? Seek it in the depths of your own heart. — Buddhist saying, adapted In Today's Session... We heard a Buddhist story about conscience, or inner voice, in which a child recognizes that no matter what he does, or who else is watching, he always sees his own...Taking It Home | November 8, 2014 | For Grades 2-3, Families | From Moral TalesCurriculum page
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Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. — Chief Seattle, 19th-century Native American leader IN TODAY'S SESSION......Taking It Home | November 8, 2014 | For Families | From Signs of Our FaithCurriculum page -
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness. — Gilda Radner IN TODAY'S SESSION......Taking It Home | November 8, 2014 | For Families | From Signs of Our FaithCurriculum page
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... each of the three times I have been present at the birth of one of my children, I have been overwhelmed by a sense of reverence... It was quite suddenly, the first day of creation; the Goddess giving birth to a world......Taking It Home | November 8, 2014 | For Families | From Signs of Our FaithCurriculum page
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Ritual is the act of sanctifying action—even ordinary action—so that it has meaning: I can light a candle because I need light or because the candle represents the light I need. — Christina Baldwin, storyteller and author IN TODAY'S SESSION... children learned to recognize signs, symbols, and...Taking It Home | November 8, 2014 | For Grades 2-3, Families | From Signs of Our FaithCurriculum page
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.— Cato IN TODAY'S SESSION... We concluded our Faithful Journeys program. Our Move It! game challenged the children to voice ways they will "step up" to act on Unitarian Universalist Principles we studied in earlier sessions. We...Taking It Home | November 7, 2014 | For Families | From Faithful JourneysCurriculum page -
We need not think alike to love alike. — Francis David (David Ferenz, 16th-century Transylvanian Unitarian minister) IN TODAY'S SESSION... A contemporary story about a Transylvanian community welcoming visitors from a U.S. partner church demonstrated action based on our sixth Principle, the goal...Taking It Home | November 7, 2014 | For Families | From Faithful JourneysCurriculum page
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We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by traveling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burden. – Jane Addams, in Democracy and Social Ethics IN TODAY'S...Taking It Home | November 7, 2014 | For Families | From Faithful JourneysCurriculum page
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To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich ... in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony. — William Ellery...Taking It Home | November 7, 2014 | For Grades 2-3, Families | From Faithful JourneysCurriculum page
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Once the guest has eaten and drunk at your table, the guest becomes kin…beggar or enemy, friend or chief, if they knock on your door, it will open; if they seek your shelter, it will be given, and if they ask for hospitality, give them your bread and wine…for who knows when you may need the help...Taking It Home | November 7, 2014 | For Grades K-1, Families | From Creating HomeCurriculum page