Quotes About Community

Everyone agrees that the three dyads in verse 28 are its central feature, its basic claim. Baptism exposes the follies by which most of us live, defined by the other, who we are not. It declares the unreality of race, class, and gender: there is no Jew or Greek, no slave or free, no male and female. We may not all be the same, but we are all one, each one a child of God.

In baptism they were committed to giving up old identities falsely acquired on the basis of baseless assumptions—Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female—and declared themselves to be children of God.

Hug and kiss whoever helped get you - financially, mentally, morally, emotionally - to this day. Parents, mentors, friends, teachers. If you're too uptight to do that, at least do the old handshake thing, but I recommend a hug and a kiss. Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.

If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

Life is short and pain is long and we were all put on this earth to help each other.

We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.

good people shine brighter in dark times.

Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.

Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.

There was power in that music, a power which seemed to most rightfully belong to all the skinny kids, fat kids, ugly kids, shy kids—the world's losers, in short.

small towns have long memories and pass their horrors down ceremonially from generation to generation.

Everybody likes the ice cream man.

they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.

The over-all impression is one of a town that is waiting to die. It is not enough, these days, to say that Chamberlain will never be the same. It may be closer to the truth to say that Chamberlain will simply never again be.

If you've every been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.

The town cares for devil's work no more than it cares for God's or man's. It knew darkness. And darkness was enough.

sure, we need the gypsies. we always have. because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?

Thanks to you guys and girls who read my stuff, too. May you have long days and pleasant nights.

I did something good for you just now. Before the sun goes down tonight, I want you to pass it on.

No community is easier to govern than one that rejects the very concept of community.

In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it.

The crowd could not know that they were cheering but somehow they did, somehow they understood that the circle between death-worship and death-wish had been completed for another year and the crowd went completely loopy, convulsing itself in greater and greater paroxysms.