Quotes About Community

They included Robin Wilson, the current Miss Sweet Valley High; Helen Bradley, a stunning redhead; Jean West, a pixie brunette; and Maria Santelli, who could do back flips that took everyone's breath away.

Love is strange" was what everyone said. It was practically the club motto.

In part what made the club such a haven was its power to make each person feel temporarily less alone.

Minutes after the shootings, everybody's cell phone rang.

Tell me how on God's green earth we can dare offer salvation to a dying world when we're so busy shooting our own wounded.

One person standing on the Rock can throw a lifeline to others drowning in the sea. He

Sooner or later you'll learn there are people in the world who don't want to use you, Now, buck up your courage and go back in there and get to know a few.

We're Christians. We have to care what people think. The appearance of wrongdoing, remember? I'm not going to move in with you had have people think we're living in sin. What sort of witness would that be?

Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results. JAMES 5:16

Nothing brings people closer together than shared suffering

No sean egoístas; no traten de impresionar a nadie. Sean humildes, es decir, considerando a los demás como mejores que ustedes. FILIPENSES 2:3

Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind let each of you regard one another as more important than himself. PHILIPPIANS 2 : 3

A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken. ECCLESIASTES 4:12

Nothing brings people closer together than shared suffering. - Naomi

When he told his story to believers, they wept and rejoiced. To unbelievers, he was an object of ridicule. The euphoria and security she felt with those who shared her faith dissolved when she watched her father stand before a crowd and suffer their abuse.

Tell me how on God's green earth we can dare offer salvation to a dying world when we're so busy shooting our own wounded.

All day Annie had watched family members, friends, and neighbors wander around the garden, and she kept thinking how they were all like flowers. Some were poppies, blooming bold and brief. Others were like ornamental vines, passionflowers, or trumpets. Still others were shy violets and wallflowers. And all together, what a beautiful world they made. Everyone different, everyone amazing to behold.

Serve God daily, love one another, preserve your victuals, beware of fire, and keepe good companie.

We are each called to reach out to others. On rare occasions that can happen on a grand scale. But most of the time it happens in simple acts of kindness of one person to another. Those are the events that really matter.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help him up.

Humans are almost always lonely.

A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.

You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. The power struggle permeates the training, education and disciplining of the orthodox community. Because of this pressure, the leaders of such a community inevitably much face that ultimate internal question: to succumb to complete opportunism as the price of maintaining their rule, or risk sacrificing themselves for the sake of the orthodox ethic.