Here are some of my favorite quotes from the drama we're doing this weekend.
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Jeff: It's a very [strange] sort of key. When you think you've found it, the fact is you've actually lost it.
Lisa: But how---
Jeff: And yet you can't find it unless you lose it.
Lisa: But I don't see-- That doesn't sound sensible!
Jeff: You know I told you it was a magic key.
Lisa: How will I know when I find it?
Jeff: Perhaps you won't, but other people will. They'll see the doors begin to open.
Lisa:Where can we begin? Is it here, in this house?
Jeff: It's everywhere. Anywhere. But that's another [strange] thing about it. You can't find it by looking for it.
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Homes should have room to breath and stretch and grow, like the people that live in them, like the parts of a human body. In fact, they are the body, the living cells in which dwells the life-spirit of the Beloved Community.
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Everybody in the world is looking for a magic key, Lisa. and everybody has his own secret door that he wishes to unlock, the door to his own deepest need and heart's desire...Only some people don't even know they have it. It's down so deep in their souls and buried in such a tangle of weeds and refuse that it's completely hidden. But it's there, waiting to be opened.
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Sometimes I think most people would like it better if nobody cared. They'd rather stay the way they are. The person who really cares about other human beings has the hardest job in the world, that of trying to help people who don't want to be helped.
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The church I dream about is a Beloved Community made up of millions of tiny, living, breathing cells, each dependent on and ministering to the life of every other. I don't know whether such a community exists, or could exist, but it's going to be the business of my life to find out.
