Quotes about Community
You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.
— John Maxwell
An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.
— E Stanley Jones
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
— George Eliot
The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We have to assess: Are we making disciples along the way as we draw people to our churches?
— Ed Stetzer
It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.
— Dorothy Day
We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.
— Francis Chan
Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.
— John Wesley
Religion is civilization, the highest.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.
— CS Lewis