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Quotes about Common life

I use both the 'I' and the 'we.' For on many, many matters, I am not simply expressing ideas that have happened to occur to Joseph Ratzinger, but I am speaking out of the common life of the Church's communion.
- Pope Benedict XVI
The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.
- Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria
God's great love and purposes for us are all worked out in messes in our kitchens and backyards, in storms and sins, blue skies, the daily work and dreams of our common lives. God works with us as we are and not as we should be or think we should be.
- Eugene Peterson
in common life we esteem but meanly and contemptibly a fellow who anoints his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing. In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere. As a general rule, he can't amount to much in his totality.
- Herman Melville
It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.
- Samuel Johnson