Quotes about Community

It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

The effect of reparations would be among the most devastating the country and the black community have ever experienced.

Christians historically have believed wrong on issues. Take slavery: they believed wrong on that issue for generations, and it had, just, repercussions that were staggeringly negative for our culture and my community. So it is possible to be Christian and to believe wrongly and practice wrongly.

Whether we're Democrats, Republicans, or independents - it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.

For some reason in today's society, people look up to football players and you have a voice. And it's because of that voice you have the opportunity to impact people's lives.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.

And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is impossible that one part should be independent of all the rest.

Yes. Everyone needs to find the one thing that brings out her passion. it's what we do to and share with the world that matters. I believe it's important that we leave our communities in better shape than we found them.