Quotes About Community

A primary task of the community of Jesus is to maintain this lifelong cultivation of love in all the messiness of its families, neighborhoods, congregations, and missions. Love is intricate, demanding, glorious, deeply human, and God-honoring, but — and here's the thing — never a finished product, never an accomplishment, always flawed in some degree or other.

Congregation is composed of people, who, upon entering a church, leave behind what people on the street name or call them.

The hunger problem is not going to be solved by government or by industry but in church, among Christians who learn a different way to pursue happiness.

Too often we think of religion as a far-off, mysteriously run bureaucracy to which we apply for assistance when we feel the need.

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

There will always be someone who will see the futility of your actions. There will always be someone who is irritated by what you do, whatever you do. In this way we participate in a kind of shared, communal pessimism.

Arguably, "solitude" is an urban word. The café is the urban equivalent of the desert cave.

Sharing the fun of fishing turns strangers into friends in a few hours. Whether you sit with native fishermen in their boat and fish with nets and lines or dive under the sea with them - they will lead you to the haunts of the specimens you desire and you could not find yourself in safer and more enjoyable company.

This is why the chances of contracting measles can be higher for a vaccinated person living in a largely unvaccinated community than they are for an unvaccinated person living in a largely vaccinated community.

A poem is something that happens between people, O'Hara insisted in his manifesto for Personism

We do not know alone. Dracula

The study looked at two groups of people, one vaccinated against the flu and the other not vaccinated. After both groups were asked to read an article exaggerating the threat posed by the flu, the vaccinated people expressed less prejudice against immigrants than the unvaccinated people.

I think you should define the word 'gentrification,'" my husband tells me now. I ask him what he would say it means, and he pauses for a long moment. "It means that an area is generally improved," he says finally, "but in such a way that everything worthwhile about it is destroyed.

When I started riding a bike I realized there's a real relationship between a body powering itself going down the street and the way you interact with your community," Smith says. "The violence of the power of a car is an alienating device. It's the last thing we need in our neighborhoods.

I have passed through several classes in my adult life, including the precariat. But I don't believe that to be true. I have always remained, more or less, in the class into which I was born.

I realized this is what white people do to each other—they cultivate each other's fear. It's very violent.

Quite a bit of human solidarity has been sacrificed in pursuit of preserving some kind of imagined purity

Meanwhile, when I walk home from the train station at night I watch unmarked cars pull in front of black teenagers, who are patted down quickly and wordlessly. Some of the teenagers, my husband observes, carry their IDs in clear cases hanging from their belts for easy access.

It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

It is a good thing to be rich, and it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved of many friends.

Get the Jews out of banking and they cannot control the economic life of the community. Get the Jews out of education and they cannot pervert the minds of the young to their subversive doctrines. Get the Jews out of government and they cannot betray the nation.

There had, of course, been no golden-haired boys; there hadn't been any boys at all. What there had been was a leper colony, run by the Brothers of Saint Patrick, a group of Irish missionaries to whom the crows had been sent.

They're a jolly lot, the lepers," said Father Liam. "People who've suffered don't have time to grumble.