Status Updates From Why We Live in Community (P...

“Most important…what really starts fighting is possessions. And people get into fights by preferring things to people…therefore for us, the importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to people. You can extend that to any limits you like - wherever things have become more important than people, we are in trouble.” (40)

“Joy and enthusiasm take shape as active love.” (19) Yes!!!!!!!!!!

“The Spirit is joy in the Living One, joy in God as the only real life; it is joy in all people, because they have life from God.” (14)

“…community is love’s victory over death, lived-by ordinary people- in union with Christ, by the grace of his victory.” (Foreword/xiii)

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