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“Their drift away from others produced a selfish privacy and they had lost the refuge and the consolation of a clan. Baptists, Presbyterians, tribe, army, family, some encircling outside thing was n...”
“In solitude we can come to the realization that we are not driven together but brought together. In solitude we come to know our fellow human beings not as partners who can satisfy our deepest need...”
“Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available.”
“It was the American middle class. No one's house cost more than two or three year's salary, and I doubt the spread in annual wages (except for the osteopath) exceeded more than five thousand dollar...”
“I think "HALLELUJAH" translates into "HALLELUJAH" in every language out there.”
“James Smith argues that liturgies are compressed, performed narratives that recruit the imagination through the body.”
“It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune.”
“The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.”
“As the community stays with the uncomfortable tension of contradiction, individuals begin to perceive the truth of the other as their own experience, and the polarities of conflicting positions oft...”
“Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defe...”
“I can always recognize the fellow wounded.”
“We don't heal in isolation, but in community.”
“Without somebody to watch me, laugh at my jokes, tell me what to do, ask me questions, race me to the river, make me guess the names of birds, or challenge me to count the silvery fish in a school,...”
“You became the sum total of where you lived, where you shopped, which church you went to, how many kids you had and which taxi company you used, and you only associated with people who had the same...”
“As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.”
“How not to search that space where, for a time span lasting from dusk to dawn, two beings have no other reason to exist than to expose themselves totally to each other- totally, integrally, absolut...”
“His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction.”
“A community best serves itself when it truly serves the awakening of the unique story trying to come to life through each person born.”
“Years later Lazar would recall questioning his mother as to who the people who shared his meals were. "Some are our relations," was the response, "But all of them are our people.”
“Communities are not built of friends, or of groups of people with similarstyles and tastes, or even of people who like and understand each other.They are built of people who feel they are part of s...”
