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//In between the " "; enter the fritz-isms. If something is quoted within the text
//the fritz-ism, use single quotes. Eg: "The cow says 'moo'.";
 
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sds[0]="We can affirm the unique truth and wisdom of our own tradition without denying that other communities also have unique truth and wisdom to share with us.—David Polk";

sds[1]="Creeds are at once the outcome of speculation and efforts to curb speculation.... Wherever there is a creed, there is a heretic round the corner or in his grave.—Alfred North Whitehead";

sds[2]="And the seasons shift, and life moves on,<BR>And the wheel goes turning, turning<BR>For God is old, and God is young,<BR>And the song of love goes singing on.&mdash;Brian Wren";

sds[3]="Ideas won&rsquo;t keep.  Something must be done about them.&mdash;Alfred North Whitehead";

sds[4]="Theologies are instruments of vision, not resting places for the mind and heart of faith.&mdash;Daniel Day Williams";

sds[5]="Love does not put everything at rest; it puts everything in motion.&mdash;Daniel Day Williams";

sds[6]="Love does not resolve every conflict, it accepts conflict as the arena in which the work of love is to be done.&mdash;Daniel Day Williams";

sds[7]="God is the poet of the world, with tender patience leading it by God&rsquo;s vision of truth, beauty and goodness.&mdash;Alfred North Whitehead";

sds[8]="Change is inevitable; it is the direction that counts.&mdash;Anonymous";

sds[9]="We know our humanity not in looking back to a lost perfection, but in looking forward towards the consummation of the new creation.&mdash;Daniel Day Williams";

sds[10]="The process of transformation of the tradition is not subject merely to goodwill.  It requires creative imagination and mutual support, extensive experimentation, and willingness to try again.&mdash;John Cobb, Jr.";

sds[11]="Going beyond the modern world will involve transcending its individualism, anthropocentrism, patriarchy, mechanization, economism, consumerism, nationalism, and militarism.&mdash;David Ray Griffin";

sds[12]="Hope is to hear the melody of the future; faith is to dance it.&mdash;Rubem Alves";

sds[13]="The deepest power of the revelation of God in Christ is the generating power whereby love calls forth love.&mdash;Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki";

sds[14]="Power without justice and charity is oppression and violence...Love without power or justice is sentimentality.&mdash;Daniel Day Williams";

sds[15]="War can protect; it cannot create...The protection of war would be the last resort in the slow progress of mankind towards its far-off ideals.&mdash;Alfred North Whitehead";

sds[16]="Love involves suffering the freedom to be acted upon by the other.&mdash;Daniel Day Williams";

sds[17]="An ethic of love will always allow for alternative political decisions.&mdash;Daniel Day Williams";

sds[18]="Love does not tell us what to do.  It is the spirit which calls us to a responsible concern for all of life and the search for a wider, more adequate community.&mdash;Daniel Day Williams";

sds[19]="God is stronger than all our deaths, and this strength is imparted so that we can live and die our many deaths.&mdash;Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki";

sds[20]="The impact that each person in the rich world has is about 60 times that of a person in the poor world.  This cannot continue&mdash;the rich must live more simply so that the poor may simply live.&mdash;Charles Birch";

sds[21]="Religion is the vision of...something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension.&mdash;Alfred North Whitehead";

sds[22]="Religion cannot exist without music.  It is too abstract.  Music comes before religion, as emotion comes before thought, and sound before sense.&mdash;Alfred North Whitehead";

sds[23]="God is not a remote being, supreme in power, a problem solver who controls all domestic and public matters, but the most persuasive, effective and creative love of all.&mdash;Sung Sohn";

sds[24]="What is praiseworthy and thus worthy of worship about God is not divine omnipotence, but such things as creative and nurturing love, wisdom and faithfulness.&mdash;Jerry Gill";

sds[25]="God does not now or eternally know what we do tomorrow, for, until we decide, there are no such entities as our tomorrow's decisions.&mdash;Charles Hartshorne";

sds[26]="What makes God absolute is Gods absolute relativity.  So everything that is, and everything that happens, makes a difference to God.&mdash;David Bromell";

sds[27]="The reign of God...is something within each one of us that needs to grow and thrive and flourish...We cannot get there while we are waiting for the supernatural superman, omnipotent God.&mdash;David E. Roy";

sds[28]="The purpose of living is not to be hurried and frantic.  It is to be fully present to where we are in ways that are wise, compassionate and free.&mdash;Jay McDaniel";

sds[29]="When questioning is banned, we are in the presence of idolatry.&mdash;Clark Williamson and Ronald Allen";

sds[30]="Religions commit suicide when they find their inspirations in their dogmas.&mdash;Alfred North Whitehead";

sds[31]="Here is the essential religious insight.  We are fragments of the divine, part of a larger whole, individuations of the divine Spirit.&mdash;Rabbi William Kushner";

sds[32]="The lives of the members of the community are bound together...The aim should be to devise policies that maximize both personal freedom and community well-being.&mdash;John Cobb, Jr.";

sds[33]="God&rsquo;s creative power in the world is always toward justice and toward an achievable mode of finite justice.&mdash;Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki";

sds[34]="Sometimes it is easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of being...To love is much more than simply to care about the other.&mdash;Joyce Kirk Moore";

sds[35]="Our deepest calling in life is not to make money or become famous or have a successful career.  Rather, it is to be open to God in a distinctively human way, as are lilies in their distinctively herbal way.&mdash;Jay McDaniel";

sds[36]="Justice in relationship so that none are without help is the way of God...Divine wrath turns the evil of human injustice into a call for justice; judgment is the opportunity for salvation.&mdash;Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki";

sds[37]="Animals, especially those with highly developed nervous systems, cannot rightly be treated as mere means.  They are entities which we must respect as ends as well....In short they make a claim upon us, we have duties toward them.&mdash;Charles Birch and John Cobb, Jr.";

sds[38]="What we know as incarnation could better be thought of as a powerful catalytic force, a force that release the presence of God which is always deep within us, to become a central and conscious part of our lives.&mdash;William Beardslee";

sds[39]="Every death allows the possibility of resurrection life.  To see the future only in terms of death and to act accordingly is to distort the fullness of promise in the future.&mdash;Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki";

sds[40]="Never swallow anything whole.&mdash;Alfred North Whitehead";

sds[41]="It is not true...that we observe best when we are entirely devoid of emotion.  Unless there is a direction of interest, we do not observe at all.&mdash;Alfred North Whitehead";

sds[42]="Both the scientific materialist and the scientific creationist have failed to respect the proper boundaries of science.  The former makes statements about religion as if they were part of science.  The latter makes statements about science that are dictated by religious beliefs.&mdash;Ian Barbour";

sds[43]="The life of Christ is not an exhibition of overruling power....Its power lies in its absence of force.  It has the decisiveness of a supreme ideal, and that is why the history of the world divides at this point.&mdash;Alfred North Whitehead";

sds[44]="Life is not a finished product but a project...God is still creating, still calling order out of the chaos, still evoking life from death, still resurrecting and transforming.&mdash;Rick Marshall";

sds[45]="A dogma which fails to evoke any response in the immediate apprehension  stifles the religious life.&mdash;Alfred North Whitehead";

sds[46]="We can expect to complete and final system; our endeavors must be tentative, exploratory, and open, allowing a measure of pluralism in recognition of the variety of experience.&mdash;Ian Barbour";

sds[47]="Faithfulness is expressed in risk-taking, rather than in seeking security.&mdash;John Cobb, Jr.";

sds[48]="The kingdom of heaven is not the isolation of good from evil.  It is the overcoming of evil by good.&mdash;Alfred North Whitehead";

 
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