“My last word has to be gratitude, gratitude for being.. It is a harsh world, indescribably cruel. It is a gentle word, unbelievably beautiful. It is a world that can make us bitter, hateful, rapid destroyers of joy. It is a world that can draw forth tenderness from us, as we lean towards one another over broken gates. It is a world of monsters and saints, a mutilated world, but it is the only one we have been given. We should let it shock us not into hate or anxiety, but into unconditional love.”
Richard Holloway, former Bishop of Edinburgh, quoted in Fragments of Holiness for Daily Reflection
Chorlton Unitarians 