Quotes about Community
The whole barrier exists because most people never come together and sit down at a table ... join together, break bread together, and celebrate their differences and their likenesses.
— Oprah Winfrey
That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.
— Shane Claiborne
The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table.
— Shane Claiborne
I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.
— Shane Claiborne
Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
— Karl Barth
Trees generously share their fruit.Bees generously share their honey.Flowers generously share their perfume. Do likewise.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
— St. Augustine
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
— George Eliot
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.
— Andrew Carnegie
The more others encounter us honoring the boundaries we have set for our lives, the more they will know that they can trust us with their lives.
— Danny Silk
Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church.
— John Calvin
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
— Andrew Carnegie