Quotes about Community

Every Jew in Galilee and everywhere else, and I mean every one of them, when they heard Jesus say "the kingdom," looked for three things: king, land, citizens.

As the priest and Levite thought they could follow the Torah and not offer aid to the stranded, dying man (Luke 10:25—37), so Isaiah's community thought they could abstain from food and pass by the needs of others on their way to God. Fasting never stands alone. Fasting, if it is genuine, brings us into a communal spirituality because it is a response to the lack of justice in the community.

the consistency of the Old Testament warnings for the covenant community formed a natural bridge to the New Testament warnings.

Every scene of heaven in the Bible shows us a vision of the Church praying together and singing together and praising together.

If you compare the written prayers from the psalms, the Lord's Prayer, or those we find in the prayer books of the church, one thing will immediately strike any reader: The prayers from those sources are theologically rich and aesthetically appropriate. I cannot always say this of the spontaneous prayers of many Christians—and I am not impugning their motives or questioning their hearts.

The fact is, there can be no true evangelization without the Eucharist. It's not simply that the Eucharist is the context in which evangelization unfolds or even the goal of evangelization. It's the content of evangelization. It's what we

Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.

In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.

I had the greatest time on Broadway and made friends I never expected to make!

You can use your time to build bridges or walls.The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness.

The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution.

Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.