Quotes about Interdependence

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

The time—which, looking back, seems so idyllic—is gone forever when individuals or relatively small groups could be completely self-sufficient. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that mankind constitutes even now a planetary community of production and consumption.

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

The lesson God engraved on my heart that day was while I didn't necessarily need the money, she needed to give it. The exchange itself—both the giving and the receiving—illustrates a key characteristic of Christian community. To open-handedly bless others from the riches God has so generously given us and to open-handedly receive blessings from others binds believers together in an interdependent, Jesus-and-others-oriented web of grace.

God and the world are not two things to be added together. Neither are they two things that are 'really' one thing. They exist in an asymmetrical relation in which one depends wholly on the other, yet is fully itself, made to be and to act according to its own logic and structure.

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.

We do not exist for ourselves.

The fabric of our complex society is woven too tightly to permit any part of it to be damaged without damaging the whole.

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.