Carter Heyward > Quotes

“Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guide. Love is a conversion to humanity — a willingness to participate with others in the healing of a broken world and broken lives. Love is the choice to experience life as a member of the human family, a partner in the dance of life.”
― THE REV. DR. CARTER HEYWARD Professor of theology at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge Mass

“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.”
― Carter Heyward

“Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.”
― Carter Heyward, Saving Jesus From Those Who Are Right