"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."

-- Joan D. Chittister

#Country Quotes #Race Quotes #Giving Quotes

“It is the doctors who desert the dying and there is so much to be learned about pain.”

Source : Quoted in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 94: 430 (2001)
“All must respect those who respect themselves.”
“If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.”

Source : "Fidel Castro survived 600 assassination attempts, officials say" by Patrick Oppmann, www.cnn.com. November 26, 2016.
“If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.”
“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”

Source : Her Son's Wife ch. 37 (1926)
“It's really complex to make something simple.”

Source : Interview with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. January 10, 2011.
“Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.”
“And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people and what other people think then that then makes me seem very sweet and polite.”

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