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Universalism struck hell from the theological menu; Unitarianism removed original sin. (Forrest Church)

We must learn to live together or perish together as fools. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Is silence the answer? It never was. (Elie Wiesel)

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. (William Hazlitt)

If there is to be peace in the home, there must be peace in the heart. (Lao-Tse)

We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. (May Lamberton Becker)

What we know is less than what we are. (William I. Thompson)

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. (Doris Lessing)

The tragedy of life is not death. But what dies inside us while we live. (Norman Cousins)

Each of us has transforming moments...when we can sometimes receive life once more as a gift, not as a given. (John Buhrens)

When those who fish can't go to sea, they mend nets. (Book of Runes (Adapted))

More progress is made by attacking problems than by attacking people. (Harry Scholefield)

To try may be to die, but not to care is never to be born. (William Redfield)

There is a story of hope, and we are characters in the story. (Robert R. Walsh)

An eye for an eye only ends by making the whole world blind. (Mohandas K Gandhi)

Perhaps we never appreciate the here and now until it is challenged. (Anne Morrow Lindberg)

Our lives are known by the dilemmas we keep. (Anthony F. Perrino)

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. (Albert Einstein)

When I can no longer bear my loneliness I take it to my friends. (Mechtild of Magdeburg)

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts. (Nikki Giovanni)

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. (Doris Lessing)

No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself. (Rabbi Soter)

We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. (May Lamberton Becker)

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. (George Eliot)

An achievement is simply a dream upon which we have labored. (John A. Taylor)

Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. (Margaret Fuller)

The world knew you before you knew the world. (Annie Dillard)

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats)

If you want peace work for justice. (Pope Paul VI)

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. (Martha Washington)

Accomplishments have no color. (Leontyne Price)

Laughter is the beginning of prayer. (Reinhold Niebuhr)

Everything in nature is resurrection. (Voltaire)

Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it. (Midrash)

The man who needs no one's help is a lonely man indeed. (Dagobert D. Runes)

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. (Thomas Paine)

Light tomorrow with today! (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Be careful how you live your life for it is the only Gospel others will read. (Helder Camara)

Why should we live in such a hurry and waste of life? (Henry David Thoreau)

No lie can live forever. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? (George Eliot)

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. (Buddha)

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. (Anonymous)

Each night a child is born is a holy night. (Sophia L yon Fahs)

There is always time for the important things. (Alan Lakein)

And the trouble is , if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. (Erica Jong)

You need somebody to love you while you're looking for someone to love. (Shelagh Delaney)

Universalism struck hell from the theological menu; Unitarianism removed original sin. (Forrest Church)

It is in our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read. (Thomas Jefferson)

Let us listen to our own prayers. It is we who will make them real. (Deng Ming Dao)

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. (Helen Keller)

Any truth creates a scandal. (Marguerite Yourcenar)

Unto us our children are given as an encouragement of hope and strength. (Kenneth L. Patton)

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. (Han Suyin)

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. (Twyla Tharpe)

True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Blessed are those who dream, for some of their dreams will come true. (Harry Meserve)

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. (Sarah Orne Jewett)

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. (Pearl S. Buck)

It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. (Sara Bernhardt)

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. (Bertrand Russell)

The key that unlocks the door to the inner world is imagination. (Morton T. Kelsey)

Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show. (Mignon McLaughlin)

Reality is something you rise above. (Liza Minnelli)

Where there is no vision, the people perish. (Proverbs 29:18)

Prayer doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, it doesn't pollute. (Margaret Mead)

Justice is love operating at a distance. (Joseph Sittler)

Little strokes fell great oaks. (Benjamin Franklin)

Religion is something that happens to you when you open your mind to truth, your conscience to justice, and your heart to love. (A. Powell Davies)

War does not determine who is right; only who is left. (Anonymous)

The master needs the slave far more than the slave needs the master. (Angela Davis)

To choose what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy; that is faith. (W. H. Auden)

Never does hatred cease by hating in return. (Dhammapada)

There is something contagious about demanding freedom. (Robin Morgan)

We are not human beings on a religious journey, but rather we are religious beings on a human journey. (Unknown)

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. (Bishop Desmond Tutu)

My own mind is my own church. (Thomas Paine)

Democracy is a government by all the people for all the people. (Theodore Parker, 1854)

Tears may be dried up, but the heart – never. (Marguerite de Valois)

There are some things that are so serious you have to laugh at them. (Neils Bohr)

Lying is done with words, and also with silence. (Adrienne Rich)

I feel we are all islands in a common sea. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

Let us accept truth. Even when it surprises us and alters our views. (George Sand)

The best prayers have often more groans than words. (John Bunyan)

It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. (Sally Kempton)

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. (Amelia Earhart)

Religion is our human response to the dual reality of being alive and having to die. (Forrest Church)

What lies behind you and what lies before you are tiny matters compared to what lies within you. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Some say that walking on water is a miracle. I say that walking on Earth in peace is the miracle. (Thich Nhat Hahn)

Letting pain be pain links us with others. (Matthew Fox)

Take time before time takes you. (Ralph Richmond.)

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. (Marcel Proust)

The past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. (Margaret Atwood)

You must do the thing you think you cannot do. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Waiting is a window opening on many landscapes. (Howard Thurman)

There's more to life than increasing its speed. (Mahatma Gandhi)

We are each of us responsible for the evil we might have prevented. (James Martineau)

Most people have to talk so they won't hear. (May Sarton)

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. (Bertrand Russell)

We are better able to teach others after we have learned the lessons ourselves. (Cyril E. Brubaker)

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. (Colette)

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when you have only one idea. (Emile-Auguste Chartier)

The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. (Julian of Norwich)

There is no reason to repeat bad history. (Eleanor Holmes Norton)

Being human explains everything, but excuses nothing. (Richard A. Perry)

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another. (Albert Schweitzer)

The freedom of the mind is the beginning of all other freedoms. (Clinton Lee Scott)

Prayer does not change things; prayer changes people. and people change things. (Lon Ray Call)

The tragedy of life is not death. But what dies inside us while we live. (Norman Cousins)

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. (Janis Joplin)

Every hour I live I become an intenser devotee to common sense! (Alice James)

I have had to live from day to day, striving each day to do my best. (Jane Addams)

Your children need your presence more than your presents. (Jesse Jackson)

We are like plants that have the one choice of being in or out of the light. (Simone Weil)

Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human. (James Luther Adams)

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. (Eric Hoffer)

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers. (Margaret Sanger)

War is fought over land that does not care, and issues that are forgotten. (Robert F. Kaufmann)

The fearful are caught as often as the bold. (Helen Keller)

If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends. (Mohammad Ali Jinnah)

To worship the wise is much easier than to profit by their wisdom. (Clinton Lee Scott)

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. (Mother Teresa)

It's not the load which weighs us down; it's the way we carry it. (Anonymous)

Each of us has transforming moments...when we can sometimes receive life once more as a gift, not as a given. (John Buhrens)

To be blind is bad, but worse to have eyes and not to see. (Helen Keller)

I will act as if what I do makes a difference. (William James)

Soft water wears away hard rock, if it persists. (Philip M. Larson, Jr.)

To sense our being connected in live ways with all the world and everyone in it, is the heart dimension of religion, whatever its name. (Peter Samson)

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. (Louisa May Alcott)

We did not weave the web of life: We are merely a strand in it. (Chief Seattle)

Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery. (Chet Raymo)

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. (Beverly Sills)

Goodness is the only investment that never fails. (Henry David Thoreau)

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. (Billie Burke)

Unanswered questions are far less dangerous than unquestioned answers. (source unknown)

Give us a child's faith, that we may be cured of our cynicism. (Sara Moores Campbell)

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? (Henry David Thoreau)

Love is a form of work or a form of courage. (M. Scott Peck)

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. (Winston Churchill)

What the earth is we are. (Walt Whitman)

Religion is something you do, not something you wait for. (Charles G. Finney)

A greater inducement to folly is excess of power. (Barbara Tuchman)

If it is language that makes us human, one half of language is to listen. (Jacob Trapp)

The worth of an individual is not related to the color of his or her skin. (Whitney Moore Young. Jr.)

All serious daring starts from within. (Eudora Welty)

The torrid sun melts the mountain snows. When anger comes, then wisdom goes. (Chinese proverb)

To become a father is not hard. To be a father is. (Wilhelm Busch)

Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans. (Betty Talmadge)

You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world. (Margaret Mead)

As we are, so we associate. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

If you cannot find it in yourself, where will you go for it? (Chinese proverb)

Loss makes artists of us all as we weave new patterns in the fabric of our lives. (Greta W. Crosby)

To be religious is not to feel, but to be. (Reinhold Niebuhr)

We can do no great things – only small things with great love. (Sister Theresa)

I must depend on myself as the only constant friend. (Margaret Fuller:)

No act of kindness. No matter how small is ever wasted. (Aesop)

Never does hatred cease by hating in return. (Dhammapada)

Memory is where the proof of life is stored. (Norman Cousins)

An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do. (Jaeger's Facts)

What we know is less than what we are. (William I. Thompson)

A closed mind is like a closed book, just a block of wood. (Chinese proverb)

We are better able to teach others after we have learned the lessons ourselves. (Cyril E. Brubaker)

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. (Thomas Jefferson)

No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself. (Rabbi Soter)

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts. (Nikki Giovanni)

And these from archive.uua.org/worshipweb/wayside/ ...

1. What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

—Mary Oliver

2. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

—Jelaluddin Rumi

3. Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

—Horace Mann

4. Be not afraid of growing slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.

—Chinese Proverb

5. Pray for the dead. Fight like hell for the living.

—Mother Jones

6. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

—Marianne Williamson

7. Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

—William Wordsworth

8. Love is a growing up.

—James Baldwin

9. Because I have been athirst, I will dig a well that others may drink.

—Arabian proverb

10. Forgiveness is the final form of love.

—Reinhold Niebuhr

11. Our growing thought makes growing revelation.

—George Eliot

12. Love is a faith, and one faith leads to another.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

13. The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

—Shakti Gawain

14. An idea is salvation by imagination.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

15. The only joy in the world is to begin.

—Cesar Pavese

16. Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

—Max Frisch

17. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

18. We are all geniuses when we dream.

—E. M. Cioran

19. Live out of your imagination, not your history.

—Stephen R. Covey

20. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

—Martin Luther King

21. The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.

—Richard Moss

22. If I can't dance, it's not my revolution.

—Emma Goldman

23. It is courage the world needs, not infallibility.

—Wilfred Grenfell

24. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

—Julia Ward Howe

From UUFalston, MD:

1 Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength. (Francis de Sales)
2 Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts. (Nikki Giovanni)
3 Goodness is the only investment that never fails. (Henry David Thoreau)
4 Wars are poor chisels , for carving out peaceful tomorrows. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
5 There is a story of hope, and we are characters in the story. (Robert R. Walsh)
6 Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. (Janis Joplin)
7 There is always time for the important things. (Alan Lakein)
8 May your life preach more loudly than your lips. (William Ellery Channing)
9 There are some things that are so serious you have to laugh at them. (Neils Bohr)
10 The master needs the slave far more than the slave needs the master. (Angela Davis)
11 There is something contagious about demanding freedom. (Robin Morgan)
12 All serious daring starts from within. (Eudora Welty)
13 When those who fish can't go to sea, they mend nets. (Book of Runes (Adapted))
14 To try may be to die, but not to care is never to be born. (William Redfield)
15 Little strokes fell great oaks. (Benjamin Franklin)
16 The healthy, strong individual is the one who asks for help when he/she needs it. (Rona Barrett (Adapted))
17 Soft water wears away hard rock, if it persists. (Philip M. Larson, Jr.)
18 I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. (Thomas Jefferson)
19 My own mind is my own church. (Thomas Paine)
20 Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list. (Letty Cottin Pogrebin)
21 One of the attributes of love is to bring harmony and order out of chaos. (Molly Haskell)
22 There is no reason to repeat bad history. (Eleanor Holmes Norton)
23 Democracy is a government by all the people for all the people. (Theodore Parker, 1854)
24 You need somebody to love you while you're looking for someone to love. (Shelagh Delaney)
25 Shallow brooks murmur most. (Sir Philip Sidney)
26 You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world. (Margaret Mead)
27 Lying is done with words, and also with silence. (Adrienne Rich)
28 Memory is where the proof of life is stored. (Norman Cousins)
29 The world knew you before you knew the world. (Annie Dillard)
30 Sin is the wreckage of the love of which we are capable. (Henry Fairlie)
31 Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. (Margaret Fuller)
32 Waiting is a window opening on many landscapes. (Howard Thurman)
33 I feel we are all islands -in a common sea. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
34 War is fought over land that does not care, and issues that are forgotten. (Robert F. Kaufmann)
35 Loss makes artists of us all as we weave new patterns in the fabric of our lives. (Greta W. Crosby)
36 Life takes its color and quality not from the days, but the dawns. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
37 The individual is not made for the state so much as the state for the individual. (William Ellery Channing)
38 Thoughtfulness makes no sound. (John E. Wood)
39 We are each of us responsible for the evil we might have prevented. (James Martineau)
40 I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. (Louisa May Alcott)
41 Being human explains everything, but excuses nothing. (Richard A. Perry)
42 What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? (Henry David Thoreau)
43 We are like plants that have the one choice of being in or out of the light. (Simone Weil)
44 The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. (Julian of Norwich)
45 What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? (George Eliot)
46 We are better able to teach others after we have learned the lessons ourselves. (Cyril E. Brubaker)
47 I defy the tyranny of precedent. (Clara Barton)
48 A free race cannot be born of slave mothers. (Margaret Sanger)
49 No lie can live forever. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
50 The best prayers have often more groans than words. (John Bunyan)
51 Justice is love operating at a distance. (Joseph Sittler)
52 Blessed are those who dream, for some of their dreams will come true. (Harry Meserve)
53 Life must be lived undisguised. (Hannah Tillich)
54 The past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. (Margaret Atwood)
55 They come to church to share God, not find God. (Alice Walker)
56 What we know is less than what we are. (William I. Thompson)
57 Any truth creates a scandal. (Marguerite Yourcenar)
58 As we are, so we associate. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
59 Love is a form of work or a form of courage. (M. Scott Peck)
60 I will act as if what I do makes a difference. (William James)
61 A greater inducement to folly is excess of power. (Barbara Tuchman)
62 Good is not a quality of life. It is life itself. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
63 Our lives are known by the dilemmas we keep. (Anthony F. Perrino)
64 Most people have to talk so they won't hear. (May Sarton)
65 The key that unlocks the door to the inner world is imagination. (Morton T. Kelsey)
66 Letting pain be pain links us with others. (Matthew Fox)
67 Is silence the answer? It never was. (Elie Wiesel)
68 Be careful how you live your life for it is the only Gospel others will read. (Helder Camara)
69 To choose what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy - that is faith. (W. H. Auden)
70 Take time before time takes you. (Ralph Richmond.)
71 When I can no longer bear my loneliness I take it to my friends. (Mechtild of Magdeburg)
72 I must depend on myself as the only constant friend. (Margaret Fuller:)
73 Laughter is the beginning of prayer. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
74 Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. (Sarah Orne Jewett)
75 Perhaps we never appreciate the here and now until it is challenged. (Anne Morrow Lindberg)
76 Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery. (Chet Raymo)
77 I have had to live from day to day, striving each day to do my best. (Jane Addams)
78 Every hour I live I become an intenser devotee to common sense! (Alice James)
79 No act of kindness. No matter how small is ever wasted. (Aesop)
80 The tragedy of life is not death. But what dies inside us while we live. (Norman Cousins)
81 Let us listen to our own prayers. It is we who will make them real. (Deng Ming Dao)
82 Accomplishments have no color. (Leontyne Price)
83 The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. (George Eliot)
84 We did not weave the web of life: We are merely a strand in it. (Chief Seattle)
85 Each night a child is born is a holy night. (Sophia L yon Fahs)
86 The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. (Marcel Proust)
87 It is in our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read. (Thomas Jefferson)
88 Prayer. doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, it doesn't pollute. (Margaret Mead)
89 What lies behind you and what lies before you are tiny matters compared to what lies within you. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
90 My country is the world. and my religion is to do good. (Thomas Paine)
91 Unto us our children are given as an encouragement of hope and strength. (Kenneth L. Pat ton)
92 If you want peace work for justice. (Pope Paul VI)
93 Where there is no vision, the people perish. (Proverbs 29:18)
94 We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. (Helen Keller)
95 No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual. (Margaret Fuller)
96 Let us accept truth. even when it surprises us and alters our views. (George Sand)
97 True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice. (Martin Luther King. Jr.)
98 No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself. (Rabbi Soter)
99 Truth. like surgery. may hurt. but it cures. (Han Suyin)
100 An achievement is simply a dream upon which we have labored. (John A. Taylor)
101 The race is not always to the swift. but to those who keep running. (Unknown)
102 What the earth is we are. (Walt Whitman)
103 More progress is made by attacking problems than by attacking people. (Harry Scholefield)
104 The worth of an individual is not related to the color of his or her skin. (Whitney Moore Young. Jr.)
105 War does not determine who is right - only who is left. (-Anonymous)
106 The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. (Anonymous)
107 We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. (May Lamberton Becker)
108 Give us a child's faith, that we may be cured of our cynicism. (Sara Moores Campbell)
109 Prayer does not change things; prayer changes people. and people change things. (Lon Ray Call)
110 Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when you have only one idea. (Emile-Auguste Chartier)
111 We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. (Winston Churchill)
112 Never does hatred cease by hating in return. (Dhammapada)
113 Religion is something you do, not something you wait for. (Charles G. Finney)
114 An eye for an eye only ends by making the whole world blind. (Mohandas K Gandhi)
115 Prejudice is the child of ignorance. (William Hazlitt)
116 If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends. (Mohammad Ali Jinnah)
117 To be blind is bad, but worse to have eyes and not to see. (Helen Keller)
118 We must learn to live together or perish together as fools. (Martin Luther King. Jr. .)
119 If there is to be peace in the home, there must be peace in the heart. (Lao-Tse)
120 Can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? (Luke 12:25)
121 Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it. (Midrash)
122 True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. (Louis Nizer)
123 At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another . (Albert Schweitzer)
124 To worship the wise is much easier than to profit by their wisdom. (Clinton Lee Scott)
125 Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged. (Rabindranath Tagore)
126 It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. (Mother Teresa)
127 Why should we live in such a hurry and waste of life? (Henry David Thoreau)
128 If it is language that makes us human, one half of language is to listen. (Jacob Trapp)
129 Everything in nature is resurrection. (Voltaire)
130 Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats)
131 The freedom of the mind is the beginning of all other freedoms. (Clinton Lee Scott)
132 May your life preach more loudly than your lips. (William Ellery Channing)
133 To be religious is not to feel, but to be. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
134 If you cannot find it in yourself, where will you go for it? (Chinese proverb)
135 Unanswered questions are far less dangerous than unquestioned answers. (source unknown)
136 You need not think alike to love alike. (Francis David)
137 An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do. (Jaeger's Facts)
138 There's more to life than increasing its speed. (Mahatma Gandhi)
139 I make the most of all that comes, and the least of all that goes. (Sarah Teasdale)
140 The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice. (Terence)
141 To lead the people, walk behind them. (Lao Tzu)
142 To become a father is not hard. To be a father is. (Wilhelm Busch)
143 To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are. (Anon)
144 Your children need your presence more than your presents. (Jesse Jackson)
145 A closed mind is like a closed book, just a block of wood. (Chinese proverb)
146 Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. (Pearl S. Buck)
147 Never lose a holy curiosity. (Albert Einstein)
148 Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human. (James Luther Adams)