Quotes about Community
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
— Martin Luther
Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?
— Martin Luther
Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith in him is unless he knew where his believers are
— Martin Luther
Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.
— Martin Luther
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools
— Martin Luther
God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
— Martin Luther
It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.
— Martin Luther
God does not need our good works, but our neighbor does.
— Martin Luther
My neighbor is every person, especially those who need my help, as Christ explained in the tenth chapter of Luke. Even if a person has done me some wrong, or has hurt me in any way, he is still a human being with flesh and blood. As long as a person remains a human being, so long is he to be an object of our love.
— Martin Luther
A true Christian lives and labors on earth not for himself but for his neighbor. Therefore the whole spirit of his life him impels him to do even that which he needs not do, but which is profitable and necessary for his neighbor.
— Martin Luther
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
— Martin Luther
A man does not live for himself alone in this mortal body to work for it alone, but he lives also for all men on earth; rather, he lives only for others and not for himself. To this end he brings his body into subjection that he may the more sincerely and freely serve others.
— Martin Luther