Quotes About Community

It is also the Greek term for joint ownership or partnership in some venture.49 Stephen Smalley puts it this way: "Christian fellowship is not the sentimental and superficial attachment of a random collection of individuals, but the profoundly mutual relationship of those who remain `in Christ' and therefore belong to each other.

The verb "cleanse" is in the present continual tense, referring to an ongoing activity. It is worth pondering whether our author is saying that cleansing happens in the course of body life, in the context of our communing with one another. Clearly, he does not see it as a purely private matter between the individual and Jesus: it is "we" who have communion and are cleansed by the blood.

We belong to the light, we belong to the thunder We belong to the sound of the words we've both fallen under Whatever we deny or embrace for worse or for better We belong, we belong, we belong together

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

Si dice che l'uomo sia un animale socievole. Stando così le cose, mi pare che un francese sia più uomo di un altro, è l'uomo per eccellenza, poichè sembra fatto unicamente per vivere in società." - Montesquieu, Lettre Persanes

Burdening is the one who takes away our solitude but does not give us company.

I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.

The Church is a collection of poor sinners. The Catholic Church is a collection of 1.1 billion very poor sinners. That's a lot of original sins, and it is no wonder we have trouble.

Men will find that they can prepare with mutual aid far more easily what they need, and avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides, by united forces.

Man is a social animal.

aceite juntó su pringosa suavidad con la acritud astringente del vino, y batidos y juntados sellaron el pacto, cuando los dedos gordezuelos de Nazaria vendaban aquella frente merecedora del yugo para tirar de un arado.

probando por algún tiempo la inefable satisfacción que proporciona este eclipse de la personalidad, este verdadero sueño social.

Todo el barrio se mueve; pero calla a la vez. Mil emociones se chocan; mil dolores son ahogados; mil lazos de amor y familia se quiebran; mil almas vuelan; pero todo esto se verifica en silencio, en medio de un movimiento automático y vertiginoso. Todo el barrio se mueve; pero calla a la vez. Sólo un ser (¡fatal excepción!) descansa y ronca en esta noche de muerte: es la partera. En tales noches no nace nadie.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Denunciarle a quién? A lo mejor no se ha enterado usted...; no se denuncia a un cura. El clero es intocable. ¿No se lo ha dicho nadie? —¿Ni siquiera cuando es un cáncer para la comunidad? Radford suspiró. —Lo más que habría conseguido —dijo— habría sido que lo trasladaran. Es lo que hace siempre la Iglesia cuando uno de los suyos se mete en líos. Y habría continuado haciendo lo mismo en otra parte.

We all have a duty to try to make the world a better place, Quirke.

There's always somebody," she said simply.

Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.

I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.

The moral principle 'it is a duty to tell the truth' would, if taken unconditionally and singly, make all society impossible.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Power has only one duty--to secure the social welfare of the people.