Quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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To live above with the saints we love, oh - that will be glory. To live below with the saints below, well - that's another story.

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Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand -- it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance.

—Oveta Culp Hobby
We are not at peace with each other because we are not at peace with ourselves. And we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

—Thomas Merton
In the first century in Palestine, Christianity was a community of believers. Then Christianity moved to Greece and became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome and became an institution. Then it moved to Europe and became a culture. And then it moved to America and became a business. We need to get back to being a healthy, vibrant community of true followers of Jesus.

—Pricilla Shirer
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will only do harm to himself and the community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone. ...If you scorn the fellowship of brethren, you reject the call of Jesus Christ, and thus your solitude can only be hurtful to you.

—Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Alfred Loisy the 19th century historian was right in saying that Jesus came proclaiming the Kingdom of God but what appeared was the Church. The disappointment was and continues to be severe. But the great irony is that today we alleviate our disappointment with the contemporary Church by pointing back to the New Testament Church --which was the great disappointment to begin with! Our restless discontent should not be over the distance between ourselves and the first century Church but over the distance between ourselves and the Kingdom of God to which the Church then and now is the witness.

—Richard John Neuhaus
It takes a village to raise a child.

—African Proverb
The family is…like a little kingdom, and, like most other little kingdoms, is generally in a state of something resembling anarchy.

—G. K. Chesterton
The church exists by mission, as fire exists by burning.

—Emil Brunner
I believe in eight of the ten commandments; and I believe in going to church every Sunday unless there's a game on.

—Steve Martin
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

—George Carlin
He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

—American Indian Proverb
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

—Rollo May
People fare best when they look not to moral rules and principles, not to priests and churches, and not to creeds, but to the actual results of what they do.

—Richard Taylor
The Bible and Church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.

—Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

—James A. Garfield
People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

—Aldous Huxley
The child tends to be stripped of all social influences but those of the market place, all sense of place, function and class is weakened, the characteristics of region and clan, neighborhood or kindred are attenuated. The individual is denuded of everything but appetities, desires and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is a process of mutilation; and once this has been achieved, we are offered the consolation of reconstituting the abbreviated humanity out of the things and the goods around us, and the fantasies and vapors which they emit. A culture becomes the main determinant upon morality, beliefs and purposes, usurping more and more territory that formerly belonged to parents, teachers, community, priests and politics alike.

—Jeremy Seabrook
The effort necessary to remain uncorrupted in an environment where fear is an integral part of everyday existence is not immediately apparent to those fortunate enough to live in states governed by the rule of law. Just laws do not merely prevent corruption by meting out impartial punishment to offenders. They also help to create a society in which people can fulfil the basic requirements necessary for the preservation of human dignity without recourse to corrupt practices. Where there are no such laws, the burden of upholding the principles of justice and common decency falls on the ordinary people. It is the cumulative effect on their sustained effort and steady endurance which will change a nation where reason and conscience are warped by fear into one where legal rules exist to promote man's desire for harmony and justice while restraining the less desirable destructive traits in his nature.

—Aung San Suu Kyi
Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're just making him madder and madder.

—Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta)

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