715 quotes found
“He was always the bridge, between men as well as between ideas.”
“The continuous work of our life, says Montaigne, is to build death. He quotes the Latin poets: Prima, quae vitam dedit, hora corpsit. And again: Nascentes morimur. Man knows and thinks this tragic ...”
“The belonging you seek is not behind you. It is ahead.”
“Isolation is not a healthy coping method, its like quarantining yourself in a gas chamber!”
“While never violating our uniqueness, we move together, united in heart and soul. Our greatness is unleashed in the context of community. When we move together, God is most perfectly revealed in us.”
“Adams met with a convention on keeping the Sabbath and found the atmosphere surprisingly similar to that in Congress. Legalistic disputes so abounded that he found it difficult to keep order.”
“The church is a whore, but she is still my mother. Augustine”
“George Foreman looks as if he might have organically appeared out of the very ground around the church.”
“The Word, the Gospel, creates not just people individually but A people collectively”
“In true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our companions will be given to us by grace. Often they will be persons w...”
“Hence, when his name was casually mentioned by neighboring yeomen, the listener said, "Ah, Clym Yeobright: what is he doing now?' When the instinctive question about a person is, What is he doing? ...”
“All of them with their own lives, untouched by mine. Or each other's.”
“For every tree, we plant, we saves a life.”
“In our modern religion there is a reticence in speaking of our personal relationship to Jesus which often causes great loss. We forget that the majority of men are guided more by emotions than by i...”
“paying taxes is a cheap price for a quiet consciencemuch cheaper than actually having to get involved in the lives of their fellow citizens.”
“In addition to an open heart and open mind, I also brought (to the small group Bible study) an open mouth.”
“Talk helps shape one's thoughts.”
“As a way of life, an act of love, an expression of faith, our hospitality reflects and anticipates God's welcome. Simultaneously costly and wonderfully rewarding, hospitality often involves small d...”
“A steady exposure to distant human need that is beyond our personal response can gradually inoculate us against particular action. . . Isolation from local need, and overexposure to overwhelming bu...”
“The secular world often finds its constituents disenfranchised and solitary as it has spent a great deal of time debating the religious community while failing to build a true community of its own.”
