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Roger Schutz

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The more a believer wishes to live the absolute call of God, the more essential it is to do so in the heart of human distress.
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The Sources of Taizé (2000), p. 79

 
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We shall be a single People of brethren,
Never to part in danger nor distress.
We shall be free, just as our fathers were,
And rather die than live in slavery.
We shall trust in the one highest God
And never be afraid of human power.

 
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