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In some ways, the entire Christian community is like the Carthusians in this simple - indeed, unavoidable and existential - feature: it is a community of solitaries.
“Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.”
― The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder
― The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder
“Asking children to grow virtues hydroponically, looking only within themselves for guidance, is like asking each one to invent a personal language―a pointless and isolating task if there is no community with whom to speak.”
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