Carter Heyward - Our passion for justice (1984)

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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

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.

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

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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...

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