Quotes About Community

God's work is not complete in a person until the private, personal space has been invaded, and he or she is willing to be forged in the anvil of community.

Wolfgang Simson, Houses that Change the World; The Return of House Churches

Someone who uses social media successfully doesn't just create content; he or she also creates conversations, and those conversations create communities.

Next time, involve me in what you're planning. How had I gone so easily from feeling excluded to doing the excluding? Did I dislike the reminder that I hadn't always been on the inside looking out? Was I so relieved to be there that I didn't notice the people who still wanted desperately to be invited in? Had I learned that the only way to be part of a society was to shun its outcasts?

In intimate conversation I am as supportive and positive as the next man, but gatherings of happy people make me miserable. I long to share in the collective joy, but instead I am racked with anxiety.

Humor is a universal lanuage.

Humor is a univeral language.

What makes cities great, and what leads to their gradual demise? As this book will argue, three critical factors have determined the overall health of cities— the sacredness of place, the ability to provide security and project power, and last, the animating role of commerce.

Without the notion of sacred space, it is doubtful cities could ever have developed anywhere in the world.

The great classical city almost everywhere was both suffused with religion and instructed by it. "Cities did not ask if the institutions which they adopted were useful," noted the classical historian Fustel de Coulanges. "These institutions were adopted because religion had wished it thus."54

Suburbia, triumphant in the world's leading economy, also swept successfully through virtually every part of the advanced industrial world. Compared with the option of living closely packed in apartment complexes, most human beings seemed to define their personal "better city" as a little more space and privacy, and perhaps even a spot of lawn.

There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

If you will focus on meeting other people's needs, God will always make sure your needs are supplied. God will take care of your problems for you.

True success is when you reach back and bring somebody along with you.

You need to be around people who know more than you and have more talent than you. Don't be intimidated by them; be inspired.

It's so important for you to get around people who will stir up those seeds of greatness. Don't surround yourself with naysayers. Life is too short to hang around negative, critical, cynical, skeptical, judgmental, small-minded, jealous people. . . . Did I leave out anything?

will build you up, people who will celebrate your victories, not people who will criticize and be jealous any time you succeed.

Who you associate with makes a difference in how far you go in life.

You need to associate with people that inspire you, people that challenge you to rise higher, people that make you better. Don't waste your valuable time with people that are not adding to your growth. Your destiny is too important.

All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. ACTS 2:44–45

Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. ROMANS 13:10

We should be encouraging them, lifting them when they've fallen, celebrating when they succeed, praying when they're struggling, urging them forward. That's what it means to be a people builder.