Carter Heyward Quotes

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.

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

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Love is a choice-not simply or necessarily a rational choice but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.

Carter Heyward

Love is a choice-not simply or necessarily a rational choice but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.

Carter Heyward

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Isabel Carter Heyward (born 1945) is an American feminist theologian and priest in the Episcopal Church, the province of the worldwide Anglican Communion in the United States. In 1974, she was one of the Philadelphia Eleven, eleven women whose ordinations eventually paved the way for the recognition of women as priests in the Episcopal Church in 1976.