Quotes about Interconnectedness

Every city is a living body.

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.

To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.

Everything each of us does affects the others. None of us lives in a vacuum. We're simply children on a quest to gain the highest forms of wisdom without being compromised in the process. But when one is compromised, the others are compromised. You see that, don't you?

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.

Modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with the lives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and not of it.

By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.

It is my growing conviction that my life belongs to others just as much as it belongs to myself and that what is experienced as most unique often proves to be most solidly embedded in the common condition of being human.

When people can cease having to be for us everything, we can accept the fact they may still have a gift for us.

But once I am able to truly confess my most profound dependence on others and on God, I can come in touch with my true self and real community can develop.