Quotes About Community

We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.

We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.

We mused for a while over parents. Then I went on musing about why it was thought better and higher to love one's country than one's county, or town, or village, or house. Perhaps because it was larger. But then it would be still better to love one's continent, and best of all to love one's planet.

The thing was not to get to know any of them, if possible. Once you know your neighbours, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them.

Inevitably we make a small world in the midst of a big one. For a small world is all we know how to make.'p46

Actually it is the way in which men always, everywhere, keep the peace, when no one of them has a recognized right to use force. Then each one feels his responsibility. This is the way Americans kept the peace on the frontier, and keep it now on fishing and hunting trips and in clubrooms.

Oh my God." I fell into my usual chair, stunned—but also not—that the news had made the rounds so quickly. "You mean it didn't even take an hour for it to get back here?

You will be one of the menders of this world; not the makers, nor yet the breakers, just one of the menders.

Then I'd scroll to the comments, and read the names of every blog reader who had promised to pray for me. Sometimes, I'd read their comments out loud. Lying in that bed, I pictured myself as a big sponge, enthusiastically absorbing all the love and peace and joy and light that these prayers were sending out in my direction.

We don't heal in isolation. We just get worse.

think about all the people who'd sat in these pews before me, and the many prayers that had been sent heavenward.

The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.

The church bell was ringing, three unvarying insistent peals, 'Come to church, come to church,' that punctuated every Sunday.

On both sides of the highway I could see the rows of little frame houses, all alike, as if there were only one architect in the city and he had a magnificent obsession.

Neighborhood grocery stores, coal yards, gas stations, cheap taverns, big old rundown houses, a few churches with blank embarrassed faces.

On the other side of the tracks - the tracks were there - the business section wore its old Spanish facades like icing on a stale cake.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

The activist is not the person who says the river is dirty. The activist is the person who cleans up the river

There's an excellent video of full-class Plan B on the Lives in the Balance website.

As George Russell defined a literary movement: "Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.

You can't worry about the rest of the world, never mind the rest of the universe. All you can do is look to your left and your right and try to be kind to whoever is there.

Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.

I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.