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> [Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-heyward/love-is-a-choice-not-simply-or-necessarily-a-rational-choice-but/)

[Carter Heyward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-heyward/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-heyward/love-like-truth-and-beauty-is-concrete-love-is-not-fundamentally-a/)

[Carter Heyward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-heyward/if-we-are-to-live-with-our-feet-on-the-ground-in-touch-with-reality/)

[Carter Heyward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-heyward/)

> [For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-heyward/for-god-is-nothing-other-than-the-eternally-creative-source-of-our/)

[Carter Heyward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-heyward/)

> [But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-heyward/but-doubt-is-a-crucial-to-faith-as-darkness-is-to-light-without-one/)

[Carter Heyward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-heyward/)

> [If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-heyward/if-women-were-in-charge-abortion-would-be-a-sacrament-an-occasion-of/)

[Carter Heyward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-heyward/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-heyward/i-m-a-priest-not-a-priestess-priestess-implies-mumbo-jumbo-and-all/)

[Carter Heyward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-heyward/)

> [God reveals herself through our relationships not only to other people but also to other creatures and nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-heyward/god-reveals-herself-through-our-relationships-not-only-to-other/)

[Carter Heyward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-heyward/)

> [Lovers re-create the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-heyward/lovers-re-create-the-world/)

[Carter Heyward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-heyward/)

> [“Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-heyward/without-critical-work-political-awareness-is-likely-to-remain/)

[Carter Heyward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-heyward/love-like-truth-and-beauty-is-concrete-love-is-not-fundamentally-a-2/)

[Carter Heyward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-heyward/)

> [It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-heyward/it-s-obvious-throughout-secular-and-church-history-that-significant/)

[Carter Heyward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-heyward/)

> [the very minute we think we 'have' God, God will surprise us. As we search in fire and earthquakes, God will be in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-heyward/the-very-minute-we-think-we-have-god-god-will-surprise-us-as-we/)

[Carter Heyward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-heyward/)

> [The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-heyward/the-whole-inhabited-earth-is-sacred-space-in-which-god-lives-breathes/)

[Carter Heyward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-heyward/)

> [The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-heyward/the-only-theology-worth-doing-is-that-which-inspires-and-transforms/)

[Carter Heyward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-heyward/we-are-born-in-relation-we-live-in-relation-we-die-in-relation-there/)

[Carter Heyward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-heyward/)

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