The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessin…

- Carter Heyward

The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts.

- Carter Heyward

To say I love you is to say that you are not mine, but rather your own.

- Carter Heyward

If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

- Carter Heyward

We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place as simply "inside myself." Nor is any pers…

- Carter Heyward

Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "draw…

- Carter Heyward

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.

- Carter Heyward

If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that we who are christian are heirs to…

- Carter Heyward

Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guide. Love is…

- Carter Heyward