Quote #82
When the Stranger says: 'What is the meaning of this city ? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?' What will you answer? 'We all dwell together To make money from each other'? or 'This is a community'?
More from Thomas Stearns Eliot
- And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.'
- Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.
- I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate Between futile speculation and unconsidered action.
- There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger.
- They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. But …
- And now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, B…
- Then it seemed as if men must proceed from light to light, in the light of the Word, Through the Passion and Sacrifice saved in spite of th…
- What life have you, if you have not life together? There is not life that is not in community, And no community not lived in praise of GOD.