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“Love is the sine qua non of human thriving.” (Rod Dreher, inspired by David Brooks.)

Via Richard Mouw (with the full text here):
“As we do not rashly condemn what good men assembled together in general councils set before us; so do we do not receive uncritically what has been declared to men under the name of the general councils, for it is plain that, being human, some of them have manifestly [...]

It is my habit not to quote unless I have read the whole text from which the quote is excerpted. But I’ll make an exception by relaying these two quotes made in a short reflection by Tom Peters on courtesy and kindness at work.
“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike [...]