Unitarian Quotes

“He [Erasmus Darwin] used to say that 'unitarianism was a feather-bed to catch a falling Christian.”

— Charles Darwin

...[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation.

— Joseph Sobran

Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian,…

— Theodore Parker

My family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church.

— Leverett Saltonstall

A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.

— Alfred North Whitehead

As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front…

— Natalie Angier

Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes…

— Ray Bradbury

“The feeling was less like chemical intoxication than being drunk on life. Spinning round and round, he experienced absolute bliss— unadulterated and…

— Sol Luckman

Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like…

— Horace Walpole

“The church, which squatted among the headstones like a wet mother dodo, had been at various times Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Unitarian, and Universally…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.

— Thomas Jefferson

To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with…

— Frances Moore Lappé

I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Christ is not God, not the saviour of the world, but a mere man, a sinful man and an abominable idol. All…

— Matthew Hammond

I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these…

— Leverett Saltonstall

I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old,…

— Roger Nash Baldwin

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

— Kurt Vonnegut

UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.

— Ambrose Bierce

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.…

— Ray Bradbury

I do not expect that the mere fact that I was once an evangelical apologist and now see things differently should itself…

— Robert M. Price

I am anxious to see the doctrine of one god commenced in our state. But the population of my neighborhood is too…

— Thomas Jefferson

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a…

— Elena Kagan