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Quotes About Community

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
~ John Piper
Expose yourself to Bible-saturated people, both the living and the dead. Their lives and their words are a great help to our joy.
~ John Piper
no se consiguen ni la salud ni la santidad a base de escapar de la gente que está pereciendo. El camino del amor, por enlodado y peligroso que sea, es el camino a la salud mental y al cielo.
~ John Piper
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
~ John Piper
Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
~ John Portman
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
~ John Portman
Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection
~ John Powell
We are commanded to associate with, pray and worship with fellow believers, plus it's medically indicated. Neuroscientist John Cacioppo concluded that people who don't associate regularly with other people are more prone to illness, obesity and feelings of helplessness. (Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection).
~ John Price
their nation with the same national identity and adopting the same name? Only Israel can make that claim.
~ John Price
David Bereit, Founder of Forty Days for Life, points out that any abortion clinic in America should have a sign in its window that reads "THIS ABORTION CLINIC IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE INACTION OF CHRISTIANS IN THIS COMMUNITY.
~ John Price
Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.
~ John Quincy Adams
So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.
~ John Quincy Adams
The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community… that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.
~ John Quincy Adams
Coyotes can't expect to keep friends when they eat them all the time.
~ John R. Erickson
One riot, one cowdog.
~ John R. Erickson
Together we kill many chicken, eat cat every day, howl at moon, oh boy.
~ John R. Erickson
You can't enter the mosque any more because of them. They pray in a completely different way and do everything wrong. They turned Sarajevo into a black hole and now the whole world is against us.... They sowed the seed of evil and left us with it."90
~ John R. Schindler
Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)
~ John Ralston Saul
On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.
~ John Ratzenberger
Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.
~ John Ratzenberger
A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place
~ John Rawls
moral order arises in some way from human nature itself and from the requirements of our living together in society.
~ John Rawls
It is a feature of human sociability that we are by ourselves but parts of what we might be.
~ John Rawls
Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.
~ John Ray