Carter Heyward

Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment,…

— Carter Heyward

If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the…

— Carter Heyward

For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is…

— Carter Heyward

But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless.…

— Carter Heyward

If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

— 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…

— Carter Heyward

God reveals herself through our relationships not only to other people but also to other creatures and nature.

— Carter Heyward

Lovers re-create the world.

— Carter Heyward

“Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.”

— Carter Heyward

Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment,…

— Carter Heyward

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

— Carter Heyward

the very minute we think we 'have' God, God will surprise us. As we search in fire and earthquakes, God will be…

— Carter Heyward

The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts.

— Carter Heyward

The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and…

— Carter Heyward

We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place as simply…

— Carter Heyward

To say I love you is to say that you are not mine, but rather your own.

— Carter Heyward

Faith is the new, the mysterious, the surprising. Nobody has ever been there before.

— Carter Heyward

Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without…

— Carter Heyward

To forgive is not to forget, but rather to re-member whatever has been dismembered.

— Carter Heyward

In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in…

— Carter Heyward

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but…

— Carter Heyward