October 2011
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”—Marcel Proust
September 2011
“Without forgiveness there is no future.”—Desmond Tutu
July-August 2011
“This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what is scarce.”—Alice Walker
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After centuries of handling and mishandling, most religious words have become so shopworn nobody’s much interested any more. Not so with grace, for some reason. Mysteriously, even derivatives like gracious and graceful still have some of the bloom left.
Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There’s no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about, any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth.
June 2011
“The winds of grace are always blowing but you have to raise the sail.”—Ramakrishna
May 2011
“Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”—G. K. Chesterton
April 2011
“Suddenly there is a point when religion becomes laughable. Then you decide that you are nevertheless religious.”—Thomas Merton
March 2011
“What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage!”—The Cowardly Lion
Quest for Meaning is a program of the Church of the Larger Fellowship (CLF).
As a Unitarian Universalist congregation with no geographical boundary, the CLF creates global spiritual community, rooted in profound love, which cultivates wonder, imagination, and the courage to act.