the very minute we think we 'have' God, God will surprise us. As we search in fire and earthquakes, God will be in the still small voice. As we listen in silent meditation, God will be shouting protests in the street. God is warning us that we had best not try to find our security in any well-defined concept or category of what is Godly - for the minute we believe we are into God, God is off again and calling us forth into some unknown place.
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 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
The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts.
To say I love you is to say that you are not mine, but rather your own. - Carter Heyward
To say I love you is to say that you are not mine, but rather your own.
If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning. - Carter Heyward
If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.
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
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…
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
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…
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
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.
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
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…
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
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…
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