Carolina Quotes
There is only Christ, the spirit of love and Reconciliation, the Healer of deep psychological wounds drawing all of us closer to that goal of perfection of which we are capable, which links us to God our creator and to Eternity.
Pauli Murray Carolinian
Source
Sermon at her first Eucharist as an Episcopal priest, Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, February 13, 1977
- form
- speech
- work
- Sermon at her first Eucharist
- year
- 1977
Cite this record
“There is only Christ, the spirit of love and Reconciliation,…” Pauli Murray. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-BC16E407F6. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/bc16e407f6
More from Pauli Murray
A victim of The University of North Carolina’s rejection in 1938, 39 years ago, stands before you today in Chapel Hill, the site of that rejection, proclaiming the healing power of Christ’s love.
Because if you rip away everything, the business of oppression is the business of not respecting one's personhood. People may be as poor as churchmice, as you have seen in Africa, the man who has only one cloth to wear on a Sunday walks with great dignity because he has a sense of his own person.
I have come to fulfill that promise but in my eyes the great nation is the American nation neither Black nor white but all colors living freely to be able to express themselves as children of God.