Quotes About Community

Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life is giving them vodka, and have a party.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Then find someone who's life is givin' them vodka and have a party!

When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

Self-reliance and arrogance have no place among God's people or in his kingdom.

Most people instinctively follow a dominant trend in an organization or community, without critical evaluation of its merits. The herd instinct is strong.

The Hebrews were—and are—first and foremost a people of a story. What held the Hebrews together was not so much a sociocultural style or geographical place, because those varied; rather, it was an affirmation about God, about humankind, and about the nature of the universe. The Hebrews were radical monotheists who founded their personal and collective identities on an assertion of belief that their God was the creator and sustainer of the universe.

SOCRATES: I appreciate that, Agathon, and of course I have prepared well for our dialogue. These discussions are my main way of becoming the best Socrates I can be. But if I just wanted to speak my own thoughts out loud, I could talk to a mirror, without the bother of leaving my house. I've come here because I'll only be sure I've done my best thinking, when I hear others, and submit to the exhilarating discipline of the dialogue. All of us are smarter than any of us.

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Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.

Ronald J. Sider

Somehow, if our grandchildren are to live in good, just, healthy society, we must find ways to restore wholesome, joyous, faithful marriages and families.

McKnight is right: the "atonement is all about creating a society in which God's will is actualized—on planet earth, in the here and now.

In order to retain a commitment to Jesus's new messianic community with its countercultural values, Christians must accept the fact that the faithful church will often—perhaps always—be a minority community in a broken world.

As the church demonstrates new possibilities for community grounded in Jesus's teaching, the church models a new reality that historically has profoundly shaped surrounding society.46 Perhaps it is not an overstatement to say that "only a continuing community dedicated to a deviant value system can change the world.

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself

In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clearer understanding of the individuals and families who are affected by it.

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

If we are followers of Jesus Christ, we are part of His church, not just a small group of people who may be discussing the latest Christian book or meeting around a social cause.