Quotes about Interconnectedness
the ideas and experiences we exchange with others grow into us like vines and reveal themselves in our mannerisms and language and outlook on life. If you want to make a sad person happy, start by planting them in a community of optimists.
- Donald Miller
God's image…is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other.
- Luke Timothy Johnson
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
- John Donne
If you take away the Jewish contribution to Christianity, there would be no Christianity. Judaism does not need Christianity to explain its existence; Christianity, however, cannot explain its existence without Judaism.
- John Hagee
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
- William Hazlitt
All of us are the products of the lives that touched upon our own lives
- Gordon Hinckley
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow-man, without at last finding the other end of it about his own neck.
- Frederick Douglass
Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.
- Albert Schweitzer
Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.
- St. Augustine
In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
On the contrary, The Philosopher says (Ethic. ix, 8): "Love for others comes of love for oneself.
- St. Thomas Aquinas