Quotes About Community

Our way must be: Never knowingly support lies!"3 You may not have the strength to stand up in public and say what you really believe, but you can at least refuse to affirm what you do not believe. You may not be able to overthrow totalitarianism, but you can find within yourself and your community the means to live in the dignity of truth.

El papa emérito Benedicto XVI augura un mundo en el que la Iglesia vivirá en pequeños círculos de fieles comprometidos que viven su fe intensamente y que tendrán que desgajarse de la sociedad de algún modo para aferrarse a la verdad. Lee este libro, aprende de la gente que te presento en él y déjate inspirar por el testimonio de los monjes. Deja que te hablen al corazón y a la mente e involúcrate

We have to tell our stories—in literature, film, theater, and other media—but we must also manifest cultural memory in communal deeds—in mourning and in celebration, in solemn remembrance and festal joy.

Father John told the mourning priest, "Join your grief with the grief of others, and then you will find it easier to carry.

God has distributed his graces in such a way that we really need each other," said the priest. "Certainly there's the old man within me that craves individualism, but the more I live in community, the more I see that you can't have it and be faithful, or fully human.

If you isolate yourself, you will become weird," Father Marc continued. "It is a tricky balance between allowing freedom and openness on the one hand, and maintaining a community identity on the other. The idea of community itself should not be allowed to become an idol. A community is a living organism that must change and grow and adapt.

La cultura popular tiene una fuerza de disolución que requiere un esfuerzo ímprobo de los individuos y las familias que quieran hacerle frente por su cuenta. En los tiempos que corren, adherirnos a una comunidad estable de fe es una necesidad.

ama la comunidad, pero no la idolatres».

Nos atrevemos a pensar que Dreher puede tender un puente con esas comunidades europeas al elegir un precioso texto de Maritain para describir la opción benedictina. No la describe como un «castillo fortificado», sino como un «ejército de estrellas» arrojadas al cielo.

La democracia solo puede triunfar si prosperan instituciones intermedias, como las Iglesias.

Romaszewska is fierce on the subject of, well, solidarity. She sees the danger of soft totalitarianism coming fast, and urges young people to get off the internet and get together face-to-face to build resistance

As I see it, this is the core, this is the essence of everything right now: Forming these communities and networks of communities," she says. "Whatever kinds of communities you can imagine. The point is that the members of that community must be very supportive of one another, no matter what comes. You don't have to be prepared to give your life for the other person, but you do have to have something in common, and to do things together.

This kind of thing is why more and more Christian parents are concluding that they cannot afford to keep their children in public schools. Some tell themselves that their children need to remain there to be "salt and light" to the other kids. As popular culture continues its downward slide, however, this rationale begins to sound like a rationalization. It brings to mind a father who tosses his child into a whitewater river in hopes that she'll save another drowning child.

seeing is only the first step. Think about what you see. Get together with others to talk about what you are all seeing. Analyze the facts and discern how your faith and your moral convictions should be applied concretely to the situation.

I Corinthians 14:26: "When you come together, everyone has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

the only other force that might have exerted a compelling authority over a polis would have been religion.

In the minds of the ancient Greeks, it was the concept of the citizen that defined the state, rather than the other way round.

this victory, eleven hundred years later, was bringing them together as never before in their new identity as Christians.

in the full Assembly.

Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself', declares Paul in one of his most frequently quoted sentences.

As Plato had noticed, when Greeks left their homeland to establish communities abroad

res publica, literally 'the thing belonging to the people'

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.