Quotes about Cooperation

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.

There are few more effective ways to promote tolerance between suspicious neighbours than to force them to eat supper together.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.

Commitment Now, nobody can have unity on his or her own. You cannot be married on your own. There is no such thing as an independent believer. You cannot have unity by belonging nowhere.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.

Thomas Merton who said: "The will of God is not a 'fate' to which we must submit, but a creative act in our life that produces something absolutely new, something hitherto unforeseen by the laws and established patterns. Our cooperation consists not solely in conforming to external laws, but in opening our wills to this mutually creative act."5

God is not in competition with reality, but in full cooperation with it.

I think humans prefer magical religion, which keeps all the responsibility on God performing or not performing, whereas mature and transformational religion asks us to participate, cooperate, and change. The divine dance is always a partnered two-step.

The nuclear family has far too often been the enemy of the global family and mature spiritual seeking.

We recognized hierarchical or vertical accountability but almost no lateral accountability to one another—as Jesus hoped for the world when he prayed that we "all might be one" (John 17:21). A corporate reading of the Gospel gives hope and justice to history, but less control over individuals, which is probably why clergy who do the preaching don't like it too much and thus don't preach it too much.