Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile. — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being… — Carter Heyward Copy Share
If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that… — Carter Heyward Copy Share
For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower,… — Carter Heyward Copy Share
But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is,… — Carter Heyward Copy Share
If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning. — Carter Heyward Copy Share
I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us would love to call… — Carter Heyward Copy Share
God reveals herself through our relationships not only to other people but also to other creatures and nature. — Carter Heyward Copy Share
“Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.” — Carter Heyward Copy Share
Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being… — Carter Heyward Copy Share
It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action. — Carter Heyward Copy Share
the very minute we think we 'have' God, God will surprise us. As we search in fire and earthquakes, God will be in the… — Carter Heyward Copy Share
The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts. — Carter Heyward Copy Share
The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the… — Carter Heyward Copy Share
We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place as simply "inside myself."… — Carter Heyward Copy Share
