Quotes About Community

You have neighbors. Will you give them the message?

The religion of Christ will unite in close brotherhood all who accept its teachings. It was the mission of Jesus to reconcile men to God, and thus to one another.

When thou makest a dinner or a supper," Christ says, "call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

If we are sick, we impose a weary tax upon our friends, and unfit ourselves for discharging our duties to our families and to our neighbors.

she was busily wondering how women could have survived marriage throughout the ages if knitting had not been invented,

I'm one of them gays too.

The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water, but we also know what it means to see our children to begin to smile again with a restoration of hope and faith in the future.

Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.

It was not for Halliday to judge another's personal relationships: everyone in the city was strange, if you looked deeply enough.

Airtight allegiance to place could make you a loser, left behind by the great sweep of a monochromatic, generalist world.

Littleton Elementary was getting a Grandbuddy soon. Each class was going to be visiting The Meadows, which

A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

Who were these people, these specially selected tenants? They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake.

This club is for members only. But once you join, membership lasts for an eternity.

I hope you enjoyed your visit. You never know. You may want to join forever.

We need each other. All of us. We cannot be alone.

Personal development, I've come to see, doesn't occur in isolation, for we're all connected whether we like it or not.

But now, without leaving home, from the comfort of your easy chair, you can divorce yourself from the consensus on what constitutes "truth." Each person can live in a private thought bubble, reading only those websites that reinforce his or her desired beliefs, joining only those online groups that give sustenance when the believer's courage flags.

bunny was a good soul and a strong believer but she would have been that way whether she went to church or not, wouldn't she. church doesn't make you a better person.

Mike, happy cities are all alike, but every unhappy city is unhappy in its own way.

Let's go, then," Ellery said, stopping a sigh. "Shall we go?" the Superintendent asked promptly. And after a few silent moments of walking he said, "That is the communal dining hall." "I know, Superintendent. I ate there this morning. And yesterday. And the day before." The man looked at him glassily. "It is where the community eats," he said. "Ah," said Ellery. "Thank you." What was the use?

Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something in nature that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. Aristotle Politics, c. 328 BC

Words and terms are born out of a need to describe the world. But because the victors, who get to write the history, had little need to describe the fate of the conquered, the words did not exist soon enough to describe and ultimately prevent the wholesale destruction of black communities in America.