“Community is dangerous... This is because, although we bump up against one another, we share no common story and no corresponding judgments about what is true, good, and beautiful. As a result, we become strangers to ourselves and to those we call friends. In such a social order, people too often confuse community with being a crowd. And crowds are intrinsically dangerous.”

 Stanley Hauerwas

“In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give; life can be rich only with such realization.”

Letters and Papers from Prison, Dietrich Bonhoeffer