Quotes About Community

In this modern jazz, they heard something rebel and nameless that spoke for them, and their lives knew a gospel for the first time. It was more than a music; it became an attitude toward life, a way of walking, a language and a costume; and these introverted kids (emotional outcasts of a war they had been too young to join, or in which they had lost their innocence), who had never belonged anywhere before, now felt somewhere at last.

It was the kind of bar where everybody knew your name, as long as your name was 'Motherfucker'.

the more of us there are, the more distant from each other we become. We're practically livin' on top of each other but we're further away from each other in every other way than we've ever been before.

There appeared to be only two types of business in the town: everybody's business, and business that was not yet everybody's but soon would be once the local gossips had got to work on it.

but David did not want to mix with them, and they in turn saw something sad and distant in him that kept them away.

Mr. Berger found himself consigned to the dusty ranks of the council's spinsters and bachelors, to the army of the closeted, the odd, and the sad, although he was none of these things. Well, perhaps just a little of the latter:

The future of thousands is hanging in the balance right now. Everyone's boat will rise with the tide.

One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all.

Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.

No one doubts that relocating a growing congregation is inconvenient. So is relocating a growing shoe store, supermarket, or household. But it doesn't follow that a pastor's desire for a bigger building should outweigh the community's desire for modestly sized structures and limited traffic.

Likewise, it's never just to cause trouble or be intentionally divisive. It's just that fun needs to be recovered to Christendom.

What it is," Violet said when John, hands behind his back, came up to her, "is many houses, isn't it?" "Many houses," he said, smiling. "Every one for you.

Such religion is Churchianity; it is not Christianity. Christianity means the religion where Christ is all; Churchianity, the religion where the Church is all.

I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.

Humans are distinguished further by the highly effective way in which they have pooled the individual intelligence of single individuals to produce a collective intelligence that greatly outweighs the capability of any single individual.

the world bars strangers or makes them present their papers—but the kingdom offers them hospitality and invites them to the wedding feast.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

John defined a society as "a company of men having the form and seeking the power of godliness, united in order to pray together, to receive the word of exhortation, and to watch over one another in love, that they may help each other work out their salvation.

In the Eucharist we can find all the dimensions of communion: God communicates himself to us, we enter into communion with him, the participants of the sacrament enter into communion with one another, and creation as a whole enters through man into communion with God. All this takes place in Christ and the Spirit, who brings the last days into history and offers to the world a foretaste of the Kingdom.

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.

I believe we are here for each other, not against each other

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself

Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.