Carter Heyward Quotes

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

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

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

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
If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that we who are christian are heirs to a body-despising, woman-fearing, sexually repressive religious tradition. If we are to continue as members of the church, we must challenge and transform it at the root. What is required is more than simply a "reformation." I am speaking of revolutionary transformation. Nothing less will do.

Carter Heyward
The very minute we think we 'have' God, God will surprise us. As we search in fire and earthquakes, God will be in the still small voice. As we listen in silent meditation, God will be shouting protests in the street. God is warning us that we had best not try to find our security in any well-defined concept or category of what is Godly - for the minute we believe we are into God, God is off again and calling us forth into some unknown place.

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

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
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