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Quotes About Unitarian

Dag insists that all dogs secretly speak the English language and subscribe to the morals and beliefs of the Unitarian church...
~ Douglas Coupland
I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us.
~ Leverett Saltonstall
Right, I'll bet he's another vegetarian. Another Unitarian vegetarian who holds up peace signs at street corners every Saturday afternoon and aspires to live in a Mongolian yurt.
~ Elizabeth Berg
UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.
~ Leverett Saltonstall
He has nothing personal against Christ; though raised Unitarian—with its glaring omission of Jesus and a hymnal so unorthodox that it was years before Less understood "Accentuate the Positive" was not in the Book of Common Prayer—Less is technically Christian. There is really no other word for someone who celebrates Christmas and Easter, even if only as craft projects.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Less has booked himself into a Christian retreat center. He has nothing personal against Christ; though raised Unitarian—with its glaring omission of Jesus and a hymnal so unorthodox that it was years before Less understood "Accentuate the Positive" was not in the Book of Common Prayer—
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Parts of the first chapter are adapted from my 1980 lectures, Born Again Unitarian Universalism, which happily this introduction to our faith will now supplant.
~ John Buehrens
I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.
~ Elena Kagan
I was raised Unitarian, and my mother said she took us to church so that we wouldn't get religious later in life.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
In his only skirmish into organized religion, he would enroll the family in the local Unitarian Universalist congregation; he liked the idea that Unitarians drew on the scriptures of all the great religions ("It's like you get five religions in one," he would say). Toot would eventually dissuade him of his views on the church ("For Christ's sake, Stanley, religion's not supposed to be like buying breakfast cereal!")
~ Barack Obama
From what he could see she had the legs of a much younger woman. Certainly not what he would have expected in the way of Unitarian legs.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
He said he was raising his kids to believe in the will not the rules and that we would go to the Unitarian Church.
~ Susan Barnes
Once they'd even brought the minister of the Unitarian church, whom I'd never really liked at all. He was terribly nervous the whole time, and I could tell he thought I was crazy as a loon, because I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.
~ Sylvia Plath
So Henry Adams, well aware that he could not succeed as a scholar, and finding his social position beyond improvement or need of effort, betook himself to the single ambition which otherwise would scarcely have seemed a true outcome of the college, though it was the last remnant of the old Unitarian supremacy. He took to the pen. He wrote.
~ Henry Adams
My family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church.
~ Leverett Saltonstall
I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.
~ Roger Nash Baldwin
I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.
~ Leverett Saltonstall
Perhaps I should have been one [some sort of a professional religious]; I like to think a monk notable for his austerities, the voice of one crying in the wilderness; but more probably a tiresome Unitarian in Walsall who writes incessantly to the local paper.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
I could go into some detail about the theological and class differences between the two groups but suffice it to say that Ralph Waldo Emerson was a Unitarian and P. T. Barnum a Universalist.
~ Michelle Huneven