Quotes About Community

I have my own story, and I love my story, but I know I can't tell it alone, not now. Because stories have centers, but they don't have edges. No boundaries.

If it's easy to reuse, people will. Create an environment that supports reuse.

Talking to other people will help build your personal network, and you may surprise yourself by finding solutions to other, unrelated problems along the way.

Without a home there can be no good citizen. With a home there can be no bad one.

We not only learn to say, 'My Father,' but also 'Our Father.' Nothing would be more unnatural than for the children of a family to always meet their father alone but never in the united expression of their desires or their love.

would, by whatever means, make the multitudes of His dear children who are still living divided lives

The relationship among the members of the church depends on united and unceasing prayer. This relationship is spiritual and can only be maintained by unceasing prayer.

our love for God is measured by our everyday interaction with men and the love it displays.

Paul felt deeply for the unity of the body of Christ. He was convinced that unity could only be reached by the exercise of love and prayer.

You know what John says: "No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another; God dwelleth in us" (I John 4:12). That is, I cannot see God, but as a compensation I can see my brother, and if I love him, God dwells in me.

Nothing happened to me. I'm just a homosexual at a Broadway show.

he liked to get to know a street, and a café, and a restaurant, and be called by name by the waiters, and owners, and coat-check girl, so that when he left, he could think of it fondly as another home. Freddy was the opposite. He wanted to see everything.

Slowly, the impossible dawned on him, and with terror he was forced to look deep within himself, as we all someday must, and ask: Am I the only frigid homosexual in New York? It turned out he was. So he left. So: Bad gay?

What could be more normal than to be out of place everywhere you go?

Women must be careful what we say to one another. We are almost all we have.

Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each of these experiences can isolate those who are affected, together they compose an aggregate of millions whose struggles connect them profoundly. The exceptional is ubiquitous; to be entirely typical is the rare and lonely state.

The Internet, [Judy] Singer said, is a prosthetic device for people who can't socialize without it. For anyone challenged by language and social rules, a communication system that does not operate in real time is a godsend.

Belonging is one of the things that makes life bearable, and it can be tough to look at a binary world and choose against both sides.

I hate the loss of diversity in the world, even though I sometimes get a little worn out by being that diversity.

I hate the loss of diversity in the world, even though I sometimes get a little worn out by being that diversity. I don't wish for anyone in particular to be gay

We like categories and clubs as much as we ever have, it's only that the ones we thought were inviolable turn out not to be, and others that we never imagined are taking their place.

I hate the loss of diversity in the world, even though I sometimes get tired of embodying that diversity. I don't wish for anyone in particular to be gay, but the idea of no one being gay makes me miss myself already.

A prodigy is a group enterprise.

The home is the place where worship of the true God starts: the place where we remember and recite God's Word, and where we learn to respond to God with our heart, soul, strength, and—as Jesus added when he called this the greatest commandment—with our mind as well.