Quotes About Community

I have faith, but I'm not the biggest fan of organised religion. There's a lot of hypocrites in church. A lot of hypocrites.

When people ask me what my religion is, I say it's the Arsenal.

Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.

We are a country where people of all backgrounds, all nations of origin, all languages, all religions, all races, can make a home. America was built by immigrants.

All the religions are basically good, but there's something about organised religion that leads to corruptness and poison.

As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers - and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.

I want the Congress to become an instrument for dialogue among the Indian people - all of us, from all corners of our great country, all religions, all ethnicities, all ages, genders and people - and for our dialogue to always be led by love and affection.

I want to make Delhi a place where people of all religions feel safe.

It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together.

Religions have a strong binding function and a cohesive element. They emphasize the primacy of the community as opposed to the individual, and they also help set one community apart from another that doesn't share their beliefs.

Because Judaism and Christianity are both covenantal religions, the relationship of the individual Jew or Christian to God is always within covenanted community.

America is a collection of people from different races, religions, and backgrounds - that is part of what makes us great. But a common language is what brings all of those people together to form a community.

Religions prosper in large part because of the communities that they create.

If you come to a Logic show, you get all creeds, colors, religions, and sexual orientations.

Religions based on the principle of service and a focus on the less fortunate help a society deal with want.

We have all ethnicities, religions, economic statuses, orientations, genders, so much diversity. We need to make sure that that diversity is seen, is heard, is respected, has a seat at the table, and is pulling a lever of power - either from a community perspective or from the perspective of elected officials.

A lot of people who are religious, I think they get lost. They go to church just to go to church.

Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it.

I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.

I know people who have, until recently, lived with dirt floors. There are people who live way back off the grid, without electricity. Not a whole lot, but quite a few. That's a choice for a lot of them. There might be a religious element in their isolation, at least with some of them.

I was always in new schools and had British parents, which was not the norm, and I think there was also... I'm not particularly religious, but I was born Jewish, and I always felt like the outsider because I wasn't Christian or Catholic.

I had to learn to navigate the political and religious currents in a state where Mormonism dominates despite not being Mormon.

Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations how we can incarnate the gospel in our community, or we will preach to a religious ghetto.