Quotes About Community

Globalgiving.com

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

in God's sight, all humanity is one person, and all people are a single humanity.

God the Creative Spirit, and intimate with others. To speak of creativity is to speak of profound intimacy. It is also to speak of our connecting to the Divine in us and of our bringing the Divine back to the community. This

Jesus's time, the dominant social vision was centered

The people we surround ourselves with either raise or lower our standards. They either help us to become the best version of ourselves or encourage us to become lesser versions of ourselves. We become like our friends. No man becomes great on his own. No woman becomes great on her own. The people around them help to make them great. We all need people in our lives who raise our standards, remind us of our essential purpose, and challenge us to become the best version of ourselves.

Nobody knew what they were supposed to believe or what neighbors and relatives believed. Ghosts suddenly became as legitimate an option as anyone's god.

The Covenant Christian Homeschool Band met in a large house next to a church, and if you ever needed to find it all you had to do was follow the procession of cargo vans with Bush/Quayle '92 bumper stickers. 

Life is easier with friends... and we live a long fucking time.

Some people might think that the smartest way to guarantee their own well-being is to isolate themselves from others and to work hard at their own happiness, without consideration for what other people are experiencing. They probably assume that if everybody did that, we'd all be happy. But the result would be exactly the opposite: instead of being happy, they would be torn between hope and fear, make their own lives miserable, and ruin the lives of the people around them too.

cruise the ones in the flesh, not the ghosts on the internet

Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in early. So she usually mentioned it.

There was nothing like a picnic! she reflected. If you were happy, it made you happier. If you were unhappy, it blew your troubles away.

After all, you couldn't go through life rolling your friendships into one gigantic snowball. You wanted different kinds of friendships, with different kinds of people.

hope you'll go to church as regularly as mother and I do. We miss a Sunday now and then, when it's fine picnicking weather. We know that God made the out-of-doors, too. But year in, year out, we go to church pretty regularly.

She could feel the Big Hill looking down as the Crowd danced at Tib's wedding in the chocolate-colored house.

She wasn't only gay, she was a gay elf.

People were freaked out, but they showed it in weird ways. Back home, people would have been weeping and doing a lot of very public group hugs. At Wexford people just aggressively pretended nothing had happened.

Her parents had no idea that you could meet people outside of school and it wasn't freaky and the internet was the way of finding your people.

No one fixes the world alone.

Gators are just something you have to accept where I come from. Most don't go anywhere near the houses, even though there are lots of delicious children and dogs there. Every once in a while, though, an alligator has a lightbulb moment and decides to take a stroll and see the world a bit.

That's what they call the pub. Your pub is your local, and we have a local. And you have to go. It's the law.

There's nothing important on earth, except human beings. There's nothing as important about human beings as their relations to one another....