Quotes about Community
Although I never found a church where I felt completely at home again, I made a new home in the world. I renewed my membership in the priesthood of all believers, who may not have as much power as we would like, but whose consolation prize is the freedome to meet God after work, well away from all centers of religious command, wherever God shows up.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
He got born in the historical moment of no more free lunch. Friends will probably count more than money, because wanting too much stuff is going to be toxic.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Mi'ija, in a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Always we walk each other home. And always we walk some of it alone.
— Barbara Kingsolver
There are Christians, and there are Christians.
— Barbara Kingsolver
It's football. Take that out of high school, it's church with no Jesus. Who would even go?
— Barbara Kingsolver
Here, if any terrorists came flying over, they'd look down on trashed-out mine craters and blown-up mountains and say, "Keep going. This place already got taken out." It was hard to see how September 11 was my fight. As far as doing good for my fellow man, my better option was football.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Maybe it's true what they say, that as long as you're nursing your own pain, whatever it is, you'll turn your back on others in the same boat. You'll want to believe the fix they're in is their own damn fault.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Well, why were they dumb enough to vote for Leah anyway, is what I asked Nelson. If they knew it was going to get Tata Kuvudundu so riled up? Nelson said some of them that voted for her were put out with Tata Ndu, and some were put out with Father, so everybody ended up getting what they didn't want, and now had to go along with it. Nobody even cares that much one way or another about Leah, is what Nelson said. Oh, well, I told him. That is what we call Democracy.
— Barbara Kingsolver
To be here was to be known. If Lee County isn't that, it's nothing.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Some people say religion is finding yourself, and some people say it's losing yourself in a crowd.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Most families would sooner forgive you for going to prison than for moving out of Lee County.
— Barbara Kingsolver