Unitarianism Quotes

“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.”
― Theodore Parker, The present aspect of slavery in America and the immediate duty of the North: a speech delivered in the hall of the State house, before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Convention, on Friday night, January 29, 1858

“A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves in almost everything that anybody else believes, and he has a very lively sustaining faith in he doesn't quite know what.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“[Transcendentalism maintains] that man has ideas, that come not through the five sense, or the powers of reasoning; but are either the result of direct revelation from God, his immediate inspiration, or his immanent presence in the spiritual world.”
― Charles Mayo Ellis

“Unitarian Universalists are neither a chosen people nor a people whose choices are made for them by theological authorities - ancient or otherwise. We are a people who choose.”
― Forrest Church, A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism

“If therefore the Father is the God of Christ and the same one is our God, and if there is no God but one, there can be no God beside the Father.”
― John Milton, Milton on the Son of God and the Holy Spirit, from his Treatise on Christian doctrine

“The word hairesis in Greek means choice; a heretic is one who is able to choose.”
― John A. Buehrens, A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism

“We are all just reflections of the infinity, and as such, we are all just different expressions of the same basic being.”
― J. W. Barlament