Quotes About Togetherness

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.

Justice' primes the human habitat for peaceful and friendly togetherness. It sets the table - the round table - for polylogue and negotiations guided by the will of agreement. Justice is the most 'socializing' of values.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.

With information we are alone; in appreciation we are with all things.

In every one of the villages

Finally, are most of my moments with my child spent asking her to "do things?" Or am I taking out some time to be alone with her—just to "be together"?

In union, there is strength.

United we stand, divided we fall.

At this last stop before the road enters the endless forest, what we have in common with others can loom larger than what separates us.

Libraries are very special spaces, spaces where people come together in separate but joint pursuits of knowledge, of learning. Libraries are the heartbeats of communities.

strength to unity unity through faith

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

We are safer and happier when we care for each other in community, when we do things for each other.

Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.

You don't win championships by being a bunch of individual all-stars," I told them. "You do it by being a team—doing all the intangibles and playing together and really trying to help one another in chasing your goals.

Where a people prays, there is the hurch; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

You are called into the community of faith; the call was not meant for you alone. You carry your cross, you struggle, and you pray in the community of faith, the community of those who are called.

Here all fear of one another, all timidity about praying freely in one's own words in the presence of others may be put aside where in all simplicity and soberness the common, brotherly prayer is lifted to God by one of the brethren. But likewise all comment and criticism must cease whenever words of prayer howsoever halting are offered in the name of Jesus Christ. It is in fact the most normal thing in the common Christian life to pray together.

We recognize, then, that only as we are within the fellowship can we be· alone, and only he that is alone can live in the fellowship. Only in the fellowship do we learn to be rightly alone and only in aloneness do we learn to live rightly in the fellowship. It is not as though the one preceded the other; both begin at the same time, namely, with the call of Jesus Christ.

Blessed are those who are alone in the strength of the community. Blessed are those who preserve community in the strength of solitude. But the strength of solitude and the strength of community is the strength of the Word of God alone, which is meant for the individual in the community.