Quotes about Community

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.

Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.

Don't tell people about your problems...90% of them don't care, and the other 10% are glad you got them?

If social media is used as a way for people to celebrate others and share life together around the world and talk about Jesus and the gospel, then social media is great. But if social media is where you are getting your approval and if it's your drug, then social media is going to kill you. Tweet that.

Lord, plant a seed of kindness in my heart and let it grow so big that I just have to share it with everyone I meet.

The best ideas are common property.

Problems always begin when people gather together in their own wisdom apart from God's power and presence.

When the church is infected and diseased with a lack of the fear of the Lord, it will be unable to help society.

Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.