Quotes about Community

Properly speaking, a culture does not have a tradition; it is a tradition.

Religion ceases to be religion when its poetic authority is recast as civic authority.

Since a culture is not anything persons do, but anything they do with each other, we may say that a culture comes into being whenever persons choose to be a people. It is as a people that they arrange their rules with each other, their moralities, their modes of communication.

The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere.

People who seek to serve the community end up falsifying their work, she wrote, whether the work is writing a novel or baking bread, because they are not single- mindedly focused on the task at hand. But if you serve the work— if you perform each task to its utmost perfection— then you will experience the deep satisfaction of craftsmanship and you will end up serving the community more richly than you could have consciously planned.

He had been taught that bread unshared is bread unblessed when someone else is hungry, whether man or beast, friend or stranger.

We must make friends in prosperity, if we would have their help in adversity.

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

In a very real and sobering way, we must actually become the gospel to the people around us—an expression of the real Jesus through the quality of our lives.

It is only when the people of God as a whole are activated in a movement that real world transformation takes place.

In essence, the apostle is the one who is most likely to facilitate the emergence of communitas, a particular kind of community that is shaped and formed around a challenge or compelling task.