“It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up. It is community that calls me beyond the pinched horizons of my own life, my own country, my own race, and gives me the gifts I do not have within me.” GivingCountryGrowthCommunityMy OwnRaceGive MeFilledEmptinessCall MeHorizonMy Own LifeFilled Up Author:Joan D. Chittister
“Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.” IfsSoulCountryMotherBirdInstinctHorizonPassagesSensibleMother CountryBeyond The Horizon Author:Amos Bronson Alcott
“Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and colour, give a promise of the glory and beauty which encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams.” GivingHumansCountrySometimesDreamLightEyeBeautifulLyingGivenHoursPromiseGloryBoundsCloudsColourSunsetHorizonWakingFar AwaySplendidHuman EyesBeautiful Country Book:Under the Sunset: And Other Stories Source: Under the Sunset: And Other Stories