Quotes About Community

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

I look upon the world as my parish.

The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

There is no such thing as a solitary Christian.

October 6, 1774 I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.

I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions.

I pity those who can find no good at church. But how should they if prejudice come between, an effectual bar to the grace of God?

The other two guys sat down. "I'm Gavin Strick," the kid in the Anthrax T-shirt said. "This here's Edward Vaugh, but everyone calls him U.V." "As in sunlight," U.V. said with a white-toothed grin. "'Cause I get so much of it.

And how important in the scheme of things was it to find this person, this one person who knew (and loved) more about one than anyone else? [...] And the whereabouts of that person ultimately defined the location of the Homeland, for in the final analysis roots were people.

The people moved sluggishly through the warmth, and he moved with them, conscious of his height among the seated figures, nodding to the faces he now recognized.

the University being an asylum, a refuge from the world, for the dispossessed, the crippled.

Everybody gets to play.

The end of biblical study consists rather in enhanced faith, hope and love both for the individual and the community. The historical-critical method is inadequate, in other words, because it does not address piety.

Happiness begins where selfishness ends.

This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.

We are not shut away into individual cages from which we can reach out only with inadequate words.

he belonged. We did not, and because we did not, we had no positive—we were condemned to negatives, to not revealing ourselves, to not speaking when we would, to not using what we knew, to not being found out—to a life of perpetual deception, concealment, and lying.

was upbeat and the lyrics went: ?We are all one ?Under the sun ?United helping and having fun ?The world we all share ?Must be treated with great care ?Lend an ear ?Do not fear ?Even when the world is not crystal clear ?Remember all you hold dear

People are not more connected, despite the billions in ads from the IT companies. Why call it community? It's just technology. The machines are connected, not the people.

People open bookstores because they want their souls back. (from "Two Women" published in Do Me: Tales of Sex & Love from Tin House)

One of them was the usual Irishman who stands by the bar of every pub selling talk for beer, one of the oldest professions.

People are different in different places,' he thought hazily. 'And if they're all right in one place, it's best to leave them there.

I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.

For capitalism to work, we all need one another.