Quotes about Community
For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.
— Elie Wiesel
I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.
— Barack Obama
Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.
— Michael Smith
Until we take seriously God's definition of the church and stop just 'having church,' we will not see transformation in our society.
— Tony Evans
In community, we discover who we really are and how much transformation we still require. This is why I am irrevocably committed to small groups. Through them, we can accomplish our God-entrusted work to transform human beings.
— John Ortberg
God has decided, for his own good reasons, that people are not transformed outside of community.
— John Ortberg
Christmas is, for those who wish to follow the way of Jesus, an invitation to accept into our comfortable and safe lives those who come to us from far away, who seem ragged, marginal, in transition.
— Jay Parini
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
— Spiro Agnew
Every city is a living body.
— St. Augustine
Human friendship also is endeared with a sweet tie, by reason of the unity formed of many souls.
— St. Augustine
O sons of Peace, sons of the One Catholic [Church], walk in your way, and sing as you walk. Travelers do this in order to keep up their spirits.
— St. Augustine
In this one man, the whole Church has been assumed by the Word.
— St. Augustine