If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.
Interpretation
Unity and peace can only be achieved by letting go of hostility.
This quote emphasizes the idea that true brotherhood and unity among people cannot exist if they are in conflict or hold on to anger and weapons, be they physical or metaphorical. It suggests that in order to foster familial or communal bonds, individuals must let go of their divisions and embrace peace and cooperation.
In practice
This quote would be appropriate in a speech promoting peace among communities.
True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.
Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This Child - the Son who is given to us - we find rest for our souls and the true bread that never fails - the Eucharistic Bread foreshadowed even in the name of this town: Bethlehem, the house of bread. God lies hidden in the Child; divinity lies hidden in the Bread of Life
And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at the simplest things, we will all say, Could we have not learned this long ago? Has this not always been embedded in everything that is?
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
United with the angels and saints of the heavenly Church, let us adore the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. Prostrate, we adore this great mystery that contains God's new and definitive covenant with humankind in Christ.
two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes
It feels like a punch. Tears fill my eyes, and I wonder how I could be upset over losing something I never had.
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.
The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says 'What would I do without you?' is already destroyed.
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