We all have a fundamental right to live free from fear, free from crime, and free from disorder - but while we share that right, we also share the duty to secure it.
Interpretation
We have the right to live without fear, but we must also take responsibility for maintaining that security.
This quote emphasizes the duality of rights and responsibilities in society. While everyone is entitled to a safe and secure life, achieving that security requires collective action and commitment from all individuals to contribute towards a crime-free and orderly environment. It highlights the importance of mutual responsibility in ensuring the safety and freedom of all members in a community.
In practice
This quote would be appropriate in a community meeting focused on safety initiatives.
If an African-American or a recent immigrant - or anyone else, for that matter - can't feel secure walking into a police station or up to a police officer to report a crime, because of a fear that they're not going to be treated well, then everything else that we promise is on a shaky foundation.
The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God. ... I do not worship matter. I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake, who willed to take His abode in matter, who worked out my salvation through matter. Never will I cease honoring the matter which wrought my salvation! I honor it, but not as God. Because of this I salute all remaining matter with reverence, because God has filled it with his grace and power. Through it my salvation has come to me.
No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
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