Truths I've Picked Up Along The WayHe set out once more, with a sense that his life would be rich in setting outs, and perhaps poorer in homecomings. - Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood. -Pierre Bourdieu Of course life sucks! It always will! So why not make the most of it? How dare you not lunge for any shred of happiness! -Jeffrey The secret to happiness is high expectations and your own bag of chips. -Dogbert, "Dilbert" Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. -Philo of Alexandria Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has. -Margaret Mead Things happen like that. Strange, amazing things. I swear they happen all the time. -Manny and Lo To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. -G.K. Chesterton No matter what our attempts to inform, it is our ability to inspire that will turn the tides. -Syracuse Cultural Workers If I can't dance...I don't want to be part of your revolution. -Emma Goldman It is better to be hated for what one is than loved for what one is not. -Andre Gide Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. -Josephine Hart People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. -Rebecca West The male party line concerning Lesbians is that women become Lesbians out of reaction to men. This is a pathetic illustration of the male ego's inflated proportions. I became a Lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate. —Rita Mae Brown You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are. -Merle Miller Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people. -Martina Navratilova The fairy tale is the primer from which the child learns to read his mind in images. -Bruno Bettelheim Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -Susan Ertz It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion. -William Ralph Inge, D.D. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -Albert Einstein The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain. -Bertrand Russell You could move. -Abigail Van Buren, "Dear Abbey," Responding to a reader who, after ranting about a gay couple's moving in across the street, asked, "How can we improve the quality of the...neighborhood? Oh, if you're a bird, be an early bird And catch the worm for your breakfast plate. If you're a bird, be an early bird-- But if you're a worm sleep late. -Shel Silverstein AIDS is the guest that won't leave. The one we all hate. But you have to remember, it's still our party! -Jeffrey If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the fields. -Frederick Douglass You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity with what shocks you. -Henry David Thoreau [A woman on a panel said she chose to be a lesbian] and the audience was just going crazy! "What does this mean?" and "Well, do you still have an attraction to men?" And she said, "No, I don't." And they said, "But that can't be, if you had it before." And she said, "Yeah, I used to like cheese but I don't eat cheese anymore and I actually don't like it; it was an acquired taste. Men were an acquired taste. I no longer have the taste for them." People were like, "What? Oh no!" Weeping and gnashing of teeth. —a queer man, quoted in Vera Whisman's Queer by Choice: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Politics of Identity, 1996 It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject permits and not to seek an exactness where only an approximation of the truth is possible. -Aristotle Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. -Henry Louis Mencken By calling ourselves progressive, we mean that we are Christians who: 1) Proclaim Jesus Christ as our Gate to the realm of God; 2) Recognize the faithfulness of other people who have other names for the gateway to God's realm; 3) Understand our sharing of bread and wine in Jesus's name to be a representation of God's feast for all peoples; 4) Invite all sorts and conditions of people to join in our worship and in our common life as full partners, including (but not limited to): believers and agnostics, conventional Christians and questioning skeptics, homosexuals and heterosexuals, females and males, the despairing and the hopeful, those of all races and cultures, and those of all classes and abilities, without imposing on them the necessity of becoming like us; 5) Think that the way we treat one another and other people is more important than the way we express our beliefs; 6) Find more grace in the search for meaning than in absolute certainty, in the questions than in the answers; 7) See ourselves as a spiritual community in which we discover the resources required for our work in the world: striving for justice and peace among all people; bringing hope to those Jesus called the least of his sisters and brothers; 8) Recognize that our faith entails costly discipleship, renunciation of privilege, and conscientious resistance to evil--as has always been the tradition of the church. -The Center for Progressive Christianity Love is the doctrine of this church, the quest for truth is its sacrament, and service is its prayer. To dwell together in peace, to seek knowledge in freedom, to serve human need, to the end that all souls shall grow into harmony with the Divine, thus do we covenant with each other and with God. -Neshoba Unitarian Universalist Church Affirmation
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