Quotes About Community

I've noticed that there is danger in spending all this time writing about those "publicans and sinners" over there in the great and spacious building. If our spot near the tree of life becomes a Rameumptom where we congratulate each other on our chosen-ness and look down on everyone else, then we're occupying nothing more than a branch office of the great and spacious.

The great game of life is not about money; it is about doing your best to join the battle to build anew ourselves, our communities, our nation, and our world.

None within this Last Redoubt can be alone. Our enemies are ever with us, unsleeping, tireless, horrid.

While he rested, she asked, 'What's the difference between natives and outsiders?' 'Natives,' he replied, 'eat indoors and shit outdoors, outsiders eat outdoors and shit indoors.

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.

For if one Father is common to us all, and every good thing that can fall to our lot comes from Him, there ought not to be anything separate among us that we are not prepared gladly and wholeheartedly to share with one another, as far as occasion requires.

The true structure of the church is the Kingdom of God, and this is neither frail nor like a tent in any way. But

where Christ does not reign men are wolves to men. Each

The proper use, then, of all the good gifts we have received is the free and generous sharing of those gifts with others.

The proper use, then, of all the good gifts we have received is the free and generous sharing of those gifts with others. No

For every family   of the pious ought to be a church.

For access to the church of God was open to the Gentiles who were to take the place left empty by the Jews.

For unquestionably nothing is more opposed to the law of God than sects, for in it is communicated the truth of God, which is the bond of unity.

The church is compared to tents because it has no solid structure in the world. It

Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

It was one of those midsummer Sundays when everyone sits around saying, "I drank too much last night.

The public library is the most dangerous place in town

Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing.

Laughter is a force for democracy.