A friend, is a man, who knows you and still loves you.
(Old saying)
2. Family
A little kindness from man to man is better than all love for mankind.
(Richard Dehmel)
The human being needs a fellow in which to find one´s own ego.
(Martin Buber)
1. Friends
Friendship, that's like home.
(Kurt Tucholsky)
5. Work
The wiser and better a man is, the more kindness will observe in the mankind.
(Blaise Pascal)
1 - 4 translated by Sebastian Krüger and revised by Joachim Sanner
4. Pro-fession
Who earnestly believes in the living God, also sees dignity and sense in his own small share of life.
(Hermann Zeller)
I am as necessary in my place, as an archangel in his.
(Cardinal John Henry Newmann)
3. Love
The CHURCH should learn from ALL those, who learned through LOVE, that there are not TWO kingdoms: one on earth and one in heaven,
but that there is the ONE and only kingdom of the SOUL: FILLED with dreams of a HEAVENLY poetry of mercy and KINDNESS.
(Eugen Drewermann)
LOVE is that bonding force, which ELEVATES the ego in the most passionate way and which offers you POWER by being in the company of a fellow man creature - you NEVER felt before.
(Eugen Drewermann)
6. Longing
If the eye were not like the SUN; HOW could we see the LIGHT.
If God´s own power didn´t live in us; HOW could something divine delight us ?
(Goethe)
Longing is the lot of the spirit, who once saw the beauty of God.
(Basilius the great)
5. Work
You say: Our times are evil and miserable. Live in a righteous way, for by living you CHANGE the time.
(Augustinus)
Who NEVER allows somthing to be taken away from himself will NEVER GIVE anything to someone else.
(Joan Baez, text of a song)
Translated by Tobias Reinholz and revised by Joachim Sanner
Pray, that your loneliness will be the spure, that makes you find something, you can live for - big enough to die for it.
(Dag Hammarskjöld)
Silence is among the mostimpressive events in our lives.
