Quotes About Community

If you're black and middle-class…every day you're [going to get] a lot of crap. You're going to get angry.

More recently political scientist James Q. Wilson has made a similar argument. "The best way to reduce racism real or imagined is to reduce the black crime rate," he says.

So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?

Simple Church by Thom Rainer and Eric Geiger.

Church was a term describing a real community of believers who meet in the presence of Christ. A church is not described by what Christians do, but who they are. But over time a problem arose. Christians began going to church, rather than being the church. Then outsiders began seeing church as a place rather than a way of life.

I saw one in pain, in pain enough for ten strong women but she didn't say a word about that pain, she went deep under the water and came back and she wasn't alone

grand bridge-building was also considered an honourable and Christian deed.

The Vikings were normally buried in cemeteries among the local people, which indicates that the relationship was often good.

You should never take more than you give

Son muchos los Nueva Yores que hay en Nueva York. Como muchos los amores que hay en el amor, que dijo Eça De Queirós.

Me había quedado sola en la ciudad y preferí luchar a la intemperie contra la célebre soledad que azota al alma humana en las grandes urbes.

Mi barrio es en sí mismo un país para viejos. Y para gente madura. Y para jóvenes que no necesitan estar rodeados de otros jóvenes sino que disfrutan de este ambiente residencial en el que nada es cool pero (casi) todo es auténtico.

Sometimes I wonder if we're livin' in the same land. Why do you wanna be my friend when I feel like a juggler running out of hands?

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

It is only within the context of the church that ongoing spiritual care, encouragement, and accountability can occur. It is only as we use the powerful word of the gospel in each other's lives that we can change.

We need the encouragement, correction, and loving involvement of others who are willing to risk everything for the sake of the beauty of his bride.

Live your life transparently so other women will see that Jesus loves the weak, the weary, the wounded, and the sinner, and perhaps they, too will be emboldened to stop faking it.

Some parents live more like reclusive monks than like first-century Christians who were famous for their love for and service within their cities, cities that in many cases were more overtly wicked than cities found in modern-day America.

I believe that God gave us the gift of communication so we could get close to others.

In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.

I once heard [Gerald] Feinberg suggest that many of Manhattan's 1970s social problems could be solved by forbidding anyone who earned less than, say, $10,000 per year to live there. It had not occurred to him, apparently, that this excluded many of the people who worked at the university.

Further still, heaven is where the Lord is recognized, trusted, and loved. The different ways he is worshiped—in variations that stem from the difference of activity from one community to another—do not cause harm but bring benefit, because they are a source of heaven's perfection.

Love comes into being through useful service to others.

A spiritual church first becomes a church when it acts as bidden by charity, charity being the true teaching of faith.