Best Quotes by Carter Heyward (Top 6)

  1. For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower, bringing us into our own together, a god whose name in history is love ...
  2. Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.
  3. 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 us priestesses. They can call us all the names in the world — it's better than being invisible.
  4. It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.
  5. Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.
  6. We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place as simply "inside myself." Nor is any person, creed, ideology, or movement entirely "outside myself."