Quotes about Community

There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another.

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

No man is an Island intire of it self; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankinde, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.

To be of no Church is dangerous.

We're all in this together ... alone.

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

God became man that dehumanized men might become true men. We become true men in the community of the incarnate, the suffering and loving, the human God.

Because of Christ's prevenient and unconditional invitation, the fellowship of the table cannot be restricted to people who are 'faithful to the church', or to the 'inner circle' of the community. For it is not the feast of the particularly righteous, of the people who think that they are particularly devout; it is the feast of the weary and heavy-laden, who have heard the call to refreshment.

It is only as a unity in diversity that the Christian community will become an inviting community in a society which is otherwise pretty uniform. Creation is motley and diverse, and the new creation even more so.

The filth of village; honestly acquired.

New York gets god awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in the streets.