Quotes About Community

The next bus pole was halfway up the block. Three black women, two white women, and a Hispanic man were standing by the post, a racial mixture so balanced it looked like a casting call for Law and Order SVU.

Without Constant Reader, you are just a voice quacking in the void.

A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.

Castle Rock Middle School was a frowning pile of red brick standing between the Post Office and the Library, a holdover from the time when the town elders didn't feel entirely comfortable with a school unless it looked like a reformatory.

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

Humor is almost always anger with its makeup on, I think, but in little towns the makeup tends to be thin.

There's little good in sedentary small towns. Mostly indifference spiced with an occasional vapid evil – or worse, a conscious one.

For those of us who are not members of a biker gang or the Marine Corps, solidarity means little more than the compassionate impulse that leads us to comfort a bereft friend; for Beezer and his merry band, solidarity is the assurance that someone's always got your back.

The church is more than a bundle of ideals, as these younger fellows seem to believe. It's more than a spiritual Boy Scout troop. The church is a Force … and one does not set a Force in motion lightly.

Mark's allusion to Jesus' "brothers" and "sisters" (see also Matt. 13: 54–56) may disturb some readers. Because his Gospel does not include a tradition of Jesus' virginal conception or birth, the existence of siblings may not have been an issue with the Markan community (as it apparently was not for the Pauline churches; none of Paul's letters allude to a virgin birth).

the Gospel writers compiled not necessarily what Jesus exactly said or did, but what the believing community collectively understood to be the tenor of his actions and sayings.

There is no such thing as perfection in a church. Instead, what you should be looking for is a covenanted body, a leadership team that has the goods for coaching you in Christ, and a place where you can invest yourself - from cleaning toilets to teaching what you know to ministering in song.

It is testimony to the importance of beer in their story that the brewery was the first permanent building the Pilgrims constructed.

How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.

Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make

Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.

The little-understood concept of interdependence appears to many to smack of dependence, and therefore, we find people, often for selfish reasons, leaving their marriages, abandoning their children, and forsaking all kinds of social responsibility—all in the name of independence.

If I am intellectually interdependent, I realize that I need the best thinking of other people to join with my own.

The message sent to one is truly sent to all because everyone is a "one," and they know that if you treat one that way, all it takes is a change of circumstances and you'll treat them that way, too.

Interdependence is the paradigm of we—we can do it; we can cooperate; we can combine our talents and abilities and create something greater together.

If I am emotionally interdependent, I derive a great sense of worth within myself, but I also recognize the need for love, for giving, and for receiving love from others.

El modo en que tratamos al «uno» revela el modo en que consideramos a los noventa y nueve restantes, porque en última instancia cada uno de ellos es «un uno».

Our home is a place of fun, relaxation, learning, friends, growth, and order, to develop ourselves into the kinds of people who can contribute to the world.

Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come before a sense of genuine sharing.