Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville (UUFG)

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness. - Sacha Guitry

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This Week at UUFG -

This Week at UUFG ~ Morning Meditation: 8:30 am Common Room & Zoom. For info and Zoom link, contact Diane DePuydt at [email protected]. ~ Worship Team: 7:00 pm Zoom. Questions? Contact Worship Team Co-Chairs, Erin Parish at [email protected] or Anna Deyle at [email protected].  ~ Silent Meditation with the U...

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Text: Wisdom cannot be imparted... One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. ~ Hermann Hesse

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Text: When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today. ~ Anthony de Mello

Wisdom, after all, is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Sue Monk Kidd

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Text: Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. ~ Baltasar Gracian

August Touchstones Theme: Wisdom - https://mailchi.mp/uufg/touchstones-theme-for-july-6520420

Faith is the willingness to give ourselves over... to... the full engagement with this strange and shimmering world. - Alan Lightman

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Faith is not desire. Faith is Will. ...Will changes the space around us. - Paul Coelho

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This Week at UUFG -

This Week at UUFG ~ Morning Meditation: 8:30 am Common Room & Zoom. For info and Zoom link, contact Diane DePuydt at [email protected]. ~ Silent Meditation with the UU Church of Valdosta: 8:00 pm Weekly 30-minute silent meditation session open to all. For information and the Zoom link, contact Carol Stiles at....

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right. - John Donne

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And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. - Alan Watts

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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary godma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. - Anais Nin

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My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason. - Norman Cousins

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Faith requires active questioning. - Lisa Randall

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Faith is a constant, always there, but surging and ebbing... - Kathleen Norris

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Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking. - Kahlil Gibran

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Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live in. - George Lancaster Spalding

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Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty. - Brene Brown

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Life is a journey in faith. - John Dear

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If there is nothing we can do right now but wait, then, as T.S. Elit wrote, "the faith is in the waiting." - Sharon Salzburg

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Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe. - Mitch Albom

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Faith makes things possible, not easy. - Unknown

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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. - Mohandas Gandhi

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This Week at UUFG -

This Week at UUFG ~ Morning Meditation: 8:30 am Zoom only this session. For info and Zoom link, contact Diane DePuydt at [email protected]. ~ Finance Committee: 6:30 pm Zoom. Questions? Contact Jim Wright, Finance Committee Chair, at [email protected]. ~ Silent Meditation with the UU Church of Valdosta...

The greatest act of faith some days is to simply get up and face another day. - Amy Gatliff

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I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. ...the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. - Anne Lamott

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When you have come to the edge... and are about to drop off into the... unknown, faith is knowing... there will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly. - Patrick Overton

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There can't be any true faith that isn't susceptible to enormous sieges of doubt. - Adam Gopnik

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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one,... both begin where reason ends. - Harper Lee

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