Quotes About Community

We read off the ancient Hebrew words, with no idea of what they might mean, and the congregation responds with more words that they don't understand either. We are gathered together on a Saturday morning to speak gibberish to each other, and you would think, in these godless times, that the experience would be empty, but somehow it isn't.

Oh, people will come, Ray," Phillip intones, doing his best James Earl Jones. "People will most definitely come.

This is what we had become, after the first symbiotic year of our living together: a couple who needed another couple to be around.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

Street floods are a regular nuisance in some low-lying areas of Queens like Hamilton Beach. Residents there have grown accustomed to swans and fish swimming in knee-high water in the middle of the road when the moon is full.

Proudly Akim Maltsev stepped aside to reveal the tail of the procession and began the enumeration: "And this is our little Vanya, our little Sasha, little Volodya, little Natasha, little Olya, little Doonya, litter Grisha…

I never realized how much of the pleasure of dining out is watching people, otherwise it feels like ordering in with better utensils.

I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.

I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.

God's gift of a call to be Christ's ambassadors of reconciliation intends to unseat other lords—power, nationalism, race or ethnic loyalty as an end in itself—and give birth to deeper allegiances, stories, spaces and communities that are a "demonstration plot" of the reality of God's new creation in Christ. Put simply, reconciliation both names the church as and requires the church to be the sign and agent of God's reconciliation.

The church's primary purpose is not to make America more Christian, but to make American Christians less American and Rwandan Christians less Rwandan. We are no longer Rwandans or Americans, neither Hutu nor Tutsi. If we are in Christ, we have become part of a new creation.

To live as the body of Christ in such a time as this is to reimagine what it means to remember and embody that story of resurrection.

Non ci resta altro che amare, amare Dio per quello che fa, e amare intensamente quelli che Egli spezza per amore.

poi, c'è la ferita che riguarda continuamente il cristiano nel mondo, quella della solitudine.

Mi sento soltanto di dire che bisogna essere, il più fortemente possibile, uniti gli uni agli altri.

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

Spread the table and contention will cease.

La solidaridad tiene sus raíces en el amor,

La soledad más absoluta se encuentra en medio de las multitudes más inmensas

A mayor número de médicos, menor número de habitantes

cosas se presentan en el horizonte amenazando traer otra época en que hay la necesidad de vivir reunidos para la mejor conservación de todos».60

Creemos que hoy más que nunca es peligroso vivir en un lugar pequeño como lo es Teziutlán, pues nuevas

A diferencia de Díaz, que los citaba (a los indígenas) en Palacio Nacional, Cárdenas había acudido personalmente a sus poblados, comía y dormía con ellos, tomaba nota, gestionaba soluciones concretas y sobre todo escuchaba, siempre escuchaba