Quotes about Community

The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.

Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.

Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable.

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.

I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.

Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.

Home is where they don't want to kill you," Jack said.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others. --- Charles James's Diary

The surest way to minimize your own burdens is to carry someone else's.

Unfortunately, large cities don't have a monopoly on loneliness. It can be found in small towns as well. Loneliness can be found everywhere there are people.

There are two ways of being strong: one is pushing people down, the other is pulling people up.

I believe that the difference between Heaven and Hell is not so much the climate as the company.