Universalist Quotes (2)
“If we agree in love, there is no disagreement that can do us any injury,
but if we do not, no other agreement can do us any good.
Let us endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace.”
Hosea Ballou
“Universalism is essentially a battle for the freedom of the common person.”
Clarence Russell Skinner
“The spirit of Love will be intensified to Godly proportions when reciprocal love exists between the entire human race and each of its individual members. That love must be based upon mutual respect for the differences in color, language and worship, even as we appreciate and accept with gratitude the differences that tend to unite the male and female of all species. We do not find those differences obstacles to love.”
George de Benneville
“A candle must give itself away.
In the giving, the spending, the spreading, the sending, it finds itself.”
John Wood
“Dear Friends, stand by this faith. Work for it and sacrifice for it. There is nothing in all the world so important to you as to be loyal to this faith which has placed before you the loftiest ideals, which has comforted you in sorrow, strengthened you for noble duty, and made the world beautiful for you. Do not demand immediate results but rejoice that you are worthy to be entrusted with this great message and that you are strong enough to work for a great true principle without counting the cost. Go on finding ever new applications of these truths and new enjoyments in their contemplation.”
Olympia Brown
“Dead fish float with the tide; live ones swim against it.”
Thomas Whittemore
“Universalism is more than cushioned seats and no hell.”
Lyman H. Squires
“Universalists believe that all of us are going to end up together in heaven, so we might as well learn how to get along with each other now.”
Gordon McKeeman
“Our work as Universalists is not simply to sow seeds, but to cultivate harvests.”
Elbridge Gerry Brooks
“A belief in God's universal love to all his creatures,
and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness,
is a polar truth. . . It establishes the equality of [humanity]. . .”
Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence
“We need to understand that religion is not a matter of . . . playthings for the Sabbath. . . It needs to be a power for good, finding daily expression in the lives of those who claim to be the children of God.
Ellsworth C. Reamon
“To be able, in any way, to benefit, interest, or even amuse any of the weary beings that toil their way through this ‘vale of tears,’ whether our efforts are known and appreciated or not;. . . to have it in our power to wipe one tear from the cheek of the despondent, to cast one ray of light upon the haggard features of misery. . . The bare idea of its possibility has guilded the dark images of life with a glow which they never wore before.” Julia Kinney Scott
Wise words from Simon and Garfunkle.
"A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest".
If you combine a carnal view to scripture with fear, blind ego, self-righteous pride, a hidden desire for vengeance and spark the religious engine with a pharisitical spirit. You get a determined believer of hell. To suppose that God would bring beings into existence for both His purpose and pleasure who He knew in advance without mercy would be infinite losers by that existence, is to charge him a hypocrite with the utmost malignity. So much for Jesus turning the other cheek. author unknown.
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The Victorious Gospel of Jesus Christ is the only Gospel that gives our heavenly Father full glory. Gary Amirault
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You'd have to be a psychopath not to want (universalism) to be true. Robin Parry