Quotes About Community

Our Quakers love us. We're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness.

I was always proud about being from Texas and, you know, maybe that was part of fearlessness. I love the fact that Texas is so big, but you don't feel small because of that.

The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.

Only if you are part of a community of believers seeking to resemble, serve, and love Jesus will you ever get to know him and grow into his likeness.

You don't have to choose between your faith and your sexuality. You're not alone, things will get better, and God loves you exactly the way you are.

I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips.

Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them.

People are so shocked when they find ... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church and I love God and I love my church.

I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.

So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?

Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!

Love the church because Jesus loves it.

Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.

Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.

There's no substitute for a great love who says, 'No matter what's wrong with you, you're welcome at this table.'

Paris, though it's a very famous city, it's very small, so people always tell themselves, "We're gonna love each other in Paris."

Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children.

I know it sounds corny, but I'd love to improve people's lives, especially socially… Making the world more open is not an overnight thing. It's a ten-to-fifteen-year thing.

That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?

In a world characterized by loneliness and despair, we can reach out in love to those around us. Or, as St. Francis once said, we can "preach the gospel all the time; if necessary, use words."