"But doubt is a crucial to faith as……" — 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, by definition, uncertainty. It is full of doubt, steeped in risk. It is about matters not of the known, but of the unknown."
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Carter Heyward
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12 Quotes by Carter Heyward
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In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from…
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If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another…
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Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of…
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Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to…
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Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall…
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If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.
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We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place…
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I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us…
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Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to…
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The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating,…
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