Quotes about Community

Nisbet recognized that communities that serve important social functions in our lives, such as families and parishes and social clubs, give structure to our day-to-day living, and thus contribute to our identity. But when the functions of these communities fade or are replaced, such as by the government, their strength as identity-forming institutions fades as well.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

What thing is so pleasant, and what so profitable, as to talk of the things of God?

He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.

For if one Father is common to us all, and every good thing that can fall to our lot comes from Him, there ought not to be anything separate among us that we are not prepared gladly and wholeheartedly to share with one another, as far as occasion requires.

The true structure of the church is the Kingdom of God, and this is neither frail nor like a tent in any way.

The proper use, then, of all the good gifts we have received is the free and generous sharing of those gifts with others.

There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbor.

For every family of the pious ought to be a church.

For access to the church of God was open to the Gentiles who were to take the place left empty by the Jews.

WE WILL MEET many difficulties as we try to dutifully seek the good of our neighbors. We won't make any headway in this regard unless we lay aside concern for ourselves—indeed, unless we somehow lay aside our very self.

For unquestionably nothing is more opposed to the law of God than sects, for in it is communicated the truth of God, which is the bond of unity.