Quotes about Interconnectedness

And that the world is a great big net, it is a whole, where no single thing exists separately; every scrap of the world, every last tiny piece, is bound up with the rest by a complex cosmos of correspondences, hard for the ordinary mind to penetrate.

I am because we are.

The average European, whether male or female, is extremely sensitive, always ready to shoulder the blame for the poverty of Africa or Asia, to sorrow over the world's problems, to assume responsibility for them, always ready to ask what Europeans can do for the South rather than asking what the South could do for itself.

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness.

One way God establishes beauty is by putting things that are different next to each other.

If true humanity is bound up in community with God and godly community with others, I will never experience it when all my eyes ever see is my own need.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you.

For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone.

As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.