Quotes about Community

By lighting another's candle you brighten your own.

You become strong by lifting others up, not pulling them down.

I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!

We are not our brother's keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

It all began with a dozen men and a handful of women: and then the Spirit came.

How we relate to God is generally how we relate to others.

If you make disciples, you always get the church. But if you make a church, you rarely get disciples.

No amount of money or ideas can replace the value of being physically present, giving time and attention to people or projects.

We don't want people to understand forgiveness or prayer or mission or justice only intellectually. We want people who can forgive, who can hear and respond to God, who actually know Him. We want people who have hearts that break for our world and the people in it and do something about it. We want the kind of people in our communities who resemble the people we see in Scripture.