We must delight in each other, make other's conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.
It's from John Winthrop's "A Model of Christian Charity" which is more famous for it's shining "city on a hill" reference, but which here gives us a crystal clear directions about how to behave as a true community.
Would that he were more frequently remembered for this quote than the one that Reagan cribbed.
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