When you are in the presence of the Holy Spirit, it is like sitting in front of a fire that does not burn you, but suffuses you with its qualities — its warmth, glow, and color. And as you are there, in the presence of the Spirit, you also become suffused with the divine attributes of compassion,...

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. — Jane Addams, American social activist and 1931 Nobel Peace Prize recipient IN TODAY'S SESSION... the group learned about Jesus' life through a story, "Meet...

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Descendent of slave and of slave owner, I had already been called poet, lawyer, teacher, and friend. Now I was empowered to minister the sacrament of One in whom there is no north or south, no black or white, no male or female—only the spirit of love and reconciliation drawing us all toward the...

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. — Harriet Tubman, conductor on the Underground Railroad IN TODAY'S SESSION......

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When my anger's over may the world be young again as after rain — the cool clean promise and the dance of branches glistening green — Raymond John Baughan, in Day of Promise: Collected Meditations, Kathleen Montgomery, ed. (Skinner House, 2001); used with permission IN TODAY'S SESSION... the...

There shall be Eternal summer in the grateful heart. — Celia Thaxter, in the poem "A Grateful Heart" (1872) IN TODAY'S SESSION... we learned about the sixth Unitarian Universalist Source, expressed in children's language as "the harmony of nature and the sacred circle of life." We heard a winter...

What is religion? Compassion for all things, which have life. — Hindu Hitopadesha (Sanskrit collection of fables) Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored. — Alice Walker, African American author IN TODAY'S SESSION... We learned about the third...

The reward of the young scientist is the emotional thrill of being the first person in the history of the world to see something or to understand something. Nothing can compare with that experience... The reward of the old scientist is the sense of having seen a vague sketch grow into a masterly...

Learning to live with what you're born with/is the process,/the involvement./the making of a life. — Diane Wakoski, American poet and essayist, in The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems ...

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. — Jean Anouilh, French dramatist IN TODAY'S SESSION... we focused on the second Unitarian Universalist Source, "Words and deeds of prophetic people which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion, and the transforming...

Love is strong as death. — Hebrew scripture, Song of Solomon, 8:6 I sometimes feel wrapped, cocooned in love. I often feel it most strongly right before I go to sleep. Then I think of my parents who died years ago and remember what the priest told me when I grieved for my father. "People die," he...

Science and religion are two windows that people look through, trying to understand the big universe outside, trying to understand why we are here. The two windows give different views, but both look out at the same universe. Both views are one-sided, neither is complete. Both leave out essential...

I want to be a dogfish and catch a leaping catfish with whiskers as long as the stream. And I want to be the rain trinkling down on the world telling it it's springtime. — Noah Frank, Grade 2, Lakeshore Elementary School, California IN TODAY'S SESSION... Children listened to a magical, bedtime...