“Love finds community without seeking it, or precisely because it does not seek it. Those who want to lose their lives will save them. Those who want to lose their lives will save them. This is the only way in which surrendering myself to what God wills for my neighbor really leads to the community of the sanctorum communio established by God; to realize each person serves as an instrument of God. Thus we find that the Christian community of love has a unique sociological structure: the mutual love of the saints does indeed constitute ‘community’ as an end in itself, that is, community in the strict sense of the word.”
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Sanctorum Communio (DBW1), 176.
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