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Communion is mutual trust, mutual belonging; it is the to-and-fro movement of love between two people where each one gives and each…
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So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of…
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So we need places, laboratories, the creation of places which could be each one of our homes, where we invite people who…
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Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community."…
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Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.
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He who is or has been deeply hurt has a RIGHT to be sure he is LOVED.
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The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts it and…
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Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us
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Stop looking for peace. Give yourselves where you are. Stop looking at yourselves, look instead at your brothers and sisters in need.…
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I remember that throughout history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for…
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In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each of whom…
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We all know well that we can do things for others and in the process crush them, making them feel that they…
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Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must…
— Albert Camus
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
— Luc de Clapiers
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For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.
— Carl Sagan
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Only when we accept and forgive all that is or has been the good, the bad, and the ugly of our human…
— Sonia Choquette
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We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of…
— Dalai Lama
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Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am.
— Emma Thompson
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as…
— William Hazlitt
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The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
— Nikola Tesla
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It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into…
— Jean Vanier
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To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views…
— Alain de Botton
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In short, Israel is the measure of our failings and our incompetence. We have waited for a great leader for years, but…
— Edward Said
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