Carter Heyward Quotes

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'. - Carter Heyward

Those who believe something can't be done shouldn't interfere with those who are doing it. - Carter Heyward

She was tired in her body and soul of the indignities of being black in America. She was weary of the excuses and violence. She was sick and tired of racism. - Carter Heyward

Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile. - Carter Heyward

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action. - 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 us priestesses. They can call us all the names in the world -- it's better than being invisible. - 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, bringing us into our own together, a god whose name in history is love. - Carter Heyward

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. - Carter Heyward

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