29 Quotes by 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.

Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.

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

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.

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

Lovers re-create the world.

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

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

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.