I wonder if those of us alive today aren't seeing prefigurations of a time when the binding of wounds takes precedence over the binding of captives; the beginning of a new covenant to heal the damage done by not caring passionately enough what happens to each other. I get the feeling history's moving finger has written only the first few lines of that story. If we can stick around awhile it's gonna be a page-turner.
— Marc Ian Barasch, Field Notes on the Compassionate Life