Quotes About Community

A sheep in wolf's clothing should not bleat within the pack.

The heart cry of every human and the lifestyle of every follower of Jesus Christ is an overwhelming need for community.

4. Recibir la bendición de Dios debería hacer de nosotros gente que "bendice" a otros.

And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.

Identity always precedes behavior. What you need is someone to come alongside you and help you remember who you are and to whom you belong.

We first must plant the gospel in the hearts and lives of people and then see what form of ecclesia emerges from the transformed community. If we begin with the premise that we are starting a "church," it will often come loaded with intuitional and cultural assumptions. Churches should grow out of the mission, not the other way around.

What would the church look like if it wasn't contained on a piece of land?

We are all complicit, and farmer-bashing is not going to help. We need farmers, more than any other profession. If lawyers, politicians, bankers, university academics or salesmen were to somehow disappear tomorrow, I think the world would muddle through pretty well. Some things might even get better. But if farmers were to vanish, most of us would be dead within a year.

Pain shared is pain divided, and you are only as sick as your secrets. In a debriefing, you have the opportunity to share those secrets and to share your pain as you come together to help each other through a traumatic event. Those who say that they do not

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. —Margaret Mead, anthropologist

Many people find the quacking of ducks an acceptable part of nature's choir. However, if you have close neighbors, the gabble of talkative hens may not be appreciated.

Some breeds are noisier than others—a fact that should be taken into consideration when you have neighbors in close proximity.

Turns out, not where, but who you're with that really matters.

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.

See you and me have a better time than most can dream of, better than the best, so we can pull on through, whatever tears at us, whatever holds us down, and if nothing can be done, we'll make the best of what's around.

What is shared in common is infinitely more significant than what apparently divides.

Draw Support From Those You Know And Trust. Don't Leave Your Happiness To Fate.

I think what y'all are doing is great." (The Dave Ramsey Show, September 2012)

Millionaires own a paid for home and maybe a beach condo. Millionaires probably live just down the block from you in a normal residential neighborhood. Millionaires often still cut their own grass.

The accountability of a group environment causes people to change their behaviors.

As a former cop, I respect and appreciate those who've dedicated their lives to serving others as well as those who appreciate the rule of law and honor it.

The black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination, began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state that subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life." T

Crucially, Davies lived in Prestwich, which often seems to be the only qualification needed to join Britain's most parochial band.

The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.