Quotes About Community

We can't meet all the needs, but we can meet some of them. — Sudha Khristmukti

WE EXPECT COUNSELING centers with their commitments to healing and their high degree of training to be community oases. When those values are violated, it strikes us as very strange. Other organizations dealing with social breakdown and crime often hire less trained employees and sometimes the combustible fumes in the air explode.

That's one of the reasons God gives us friends. Through their words, prayers, and encouragement, they keep us going when we feel we can't move.

There is convincing evidence that vegetarians have lower rates of coronary heart disease, largely explained by low LDL cholesterol, probable lower rales of hypertension and diabetes mellitus, and lower prevalence of obesity. Overall, their cancer rates appear to be moderately lower than others living in the same communities, and life expectancy appears to be greater.

As North American culture glides toward secularism, significant numbers of church attendees view their church as a place where they gather in safety with others who hold similar beliefs and values. To them, the church is a home where they come each weekend to be healed, comforted, and encouraged before they venture back into an unfriendly world. Instead of being pioneers, venturing out to reach a lost world, numbers of churches have settled down to maintain the farm.

It is not unkind to say that the ingrownness of many congregations is the antithesis of the Great Commission to make disciples.

If we don't meet people's felt needs, we will never meet their real needs.

As God's people, we are to be welcomers just as God is a welcomer. When we welcome newcomers to church, we are demonstrating the gracious love and care of God himself.

How can we inform, engage, and serve people who don't have kids in our schools?

The fuel oil was too expensive so they turned the heaters down so it wasn't burning so much of their small monthly checks and they could still afford to buy and make two meat meals a week. But the cold brought them aches and pains so they came to the library where it was warm and they sat and talked and knitted scarves and mittens to give to their children who had moved away. They turned their house heaters down and lived on their memories in the library.

Whatever you may think of Judaism, Lyuba, in the end it's just a codified system of anxieties.

Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.

If they can make a fabulous gay man work like that, I thought, what can they do to the rest of us?

tikkun olam, or "repairing the world.

cheder, their eyes still glossy with scripture now

It is true that the church must be in many places and with many people, but it is the poor who will reveal to the church—dramatically and poignantly—the nature of its heart and mission.

There are two things that are really educational. One is being with a bunch of really smart people. The other is being all by yourself.

The tribes were Berkeley, North Beach, Big Sur, Marin County, Los Angeles, and the host, Haight-Ashbury.

Performance is currency in the deep world's gift economy

Il movimento bioregionale non è solamente un programma rurale: vale anche come progetto di restaurazione della vita nei quartieri delle città e del loro ritorno ad essere più verdi.

Corporations found out that without a healthy culture, people are not natural Marxists but natural couch potatoes. With no extended family, no effective church, and no healthy local community to support their lives, people don't form revolutionary cells: they buy a case of beer or renew their Xanax prescription and spend their non-working hours watching NFL games and the Lifetime network and various types of pornography.

Pixies, the first communists.

Silly. Moon for you?" "No, the moon is for everyone," I said. "Tree is for everyone." Pixies, the first communists.

if you want to know what I've learned in my extended time on Earth it is this: beer is good.