Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a … - Carter Heyward

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When a bud breaks it becomes a flower, when a heart breaks it becomes divine.

Carter Heyward

Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward. " Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.

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In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period.

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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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The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the world.

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