A Quote by Abigail Adams

I acknowledge myself a unitarian

Abigail Adams

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Acknowledge Myself Unitarian

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Abigail Adams
American - First lady
November 22, 1744 - October 28, 1818

I acknowledge myself a unitarian - Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father. ... There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.

Abigail Adams

UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.

Ambrose Bierce

A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.

Alfred North Whitehead

It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.

Mignon McLaughlin

My family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church.

Leverett Saltonstall

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

W. Somerset Maugham

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.

Charles Spurgeon

I am anxious to see the doctrine of one god commenced in our state. But the population of my neighborhood is too slender, and is too much divided into other sects to maintain any one preacher well. I must therefore be contented to be an Unitarian by myself, although I know there are many around me who would become so, if once they could hear the questions fairly stated.

Thomas Jefferson

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

Douglas Coupland

My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.