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The social philosopher Ivan Illich was right when he insisted that the Good Samaritan is about encounter, not social (or even ecclesial) policy. Neighbors, according to Jesus’s telling, are those we meet, in flesh and blood, beside whom God has placed us in whatever odd circumstances, unplanned meanderings, or simple communal proximities. There... See more

The Substance of Our Lives - First Things

YOUTH: Society’s smallest unit, huh? I’d say the family. PHILOSOPHER: No, it is “you and I.” When there are two people, society emerges in their presence, and community emerges there too.

Ichiro Kishimi • The Courage to Be Disliked

Rabbi Louis Rieser.

Amy Scheinerman • The Talmud of Relationships, Volume 1: God, Self, and Family

Level three: We are in a unique relationship with our neighbor because of our Lord’s command to love our neighbor as we love ourselves, seeing in our neighbor the image of God and wanting to serve our neighbor in his or her ongoing journey of transformation.

R. Scott Rodin • The Steward Leader: Transforming People, Organizations and Communities

Rotary allows relationships to develop within an environment of caring for others ; any subsequent business benefit is secondary to those friendships, which is just the way it works best.

Rabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

Man’s conversation with God and men’s conversation with one another are mutually necessary and interdependent.

Pope Benedict XVI • Introduction To Christianity, 2nd Edition (Communio Books)

Martin Buber, who studied the reality of humankind’s connectedness, observed that there are basically two ways of being with others: we can be in the world seeing others as they are, as people, or we can be in the world seeing others as they are not, as objects.

The Arbinger Institute • The Outward Mindset: How to Change Lives and Transform Organizations

Rogers stated his central hypothesis in one sentence: “If I can provide a certain type of relationship, the other will discover within himself the capacity to use that relationship for growth, and change and personal development will occur.”