Quotes About Community

one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer—and the other seven will know her.

There are many ways to make a family, and that's really the essence of The Lakeshore Chronicles books. As each story ends, a new one unfolds. The one element they all have in common is the key ingredient that makes everything hold together—love. I deeply appreciate the readers who have been so supportive of these books.

San Francisco was her favorite. It was the kind of city where being independent was valued, not pitied or regarded as a problem to be rectified by well-meaning friends.

but in a town full of nobodys, she's practically somebody.

Setting out some honey shortbread cookies to go with the lemonade, she flashed on memories of her grandmother, offering refreshments to anyone who was lucky enough to come through the kitchen door. As a working farm, Bella Vista was always busy with workers, some seasonal and others permanent. 'In my kitchen, everyone is family,' Bubbie used to say, beaming as the orchard workers, mechanics or gardeners gladly wolfed down her baked goods.

The girls used to play together in Portsmouth Square, surrounded by Chinese grannies sipping their milk tea and playing board games. They'd snack on soft buns filled with sweet coconut, and when it rained, they'd dunk into the curio shops or the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory, their senses dazzled by the delicious, sugary aroma.

trivial incidents can loom large and threatening in a community that's closed off from the outside. If you live in the teapot, the tempest fills your entire world.

money is a matter of faith—as thirty-six inches are a yard only because multitudes agree to that measure of length and keep that agreement." If the agreement was broken, "faith was gone, and any tangible thing to eat, to wear, to shelter one's body from the weather was more valuable than any number of pieces of paper, which were only symbols of a lost faith.

This experience led me to form a hypothesis: perhaps the wisdom of birds resides, not in the individual, but in the flock, the congregation.

For this is England where a man's neighbours will never suffer him to live entirely bereft of society, let him be as dry and sour-faced as he may.

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.

groups, and the varieties of the undulating ground on which they stood, there was little that could be

Normally, we worry about our own material well-being and our neighbor's souls; let us rather worry about our neighbor's material well-being and our own souls" (Rabbi Israel Salanter).

in this world, if you give nothing out, you get nothing back

living to make, and he wanted to make it here in these parts, where

I've teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who've found homes through their in-store adoption centers, and to spread the word about how we can work together to save millions more pets' lives and, ultimately, end pet homelessness.

John Chandler, who leads a Christian community in Austin, Texas, shared this: We've by far had the most success inviting people into our community life by inviting them to serve alongside us. As a matter of fact, that's about the only thing that's worked consistently as far as "official" church activities go.

A group of ten that doubles every eighteen months can reach a thousand people for God in ten years.

Everything changes when we love people rather than just telling them about Christ's love.

Groups don't really impact a local church until they become part of a church's culture. And that begins with senior leadership.

I start to wonder what the people all around me do on days like today. I live in a box in the sky with boxes identical to mine on all sides, and forty stories of identical boxes below me. What do all those boxed people do on Saturdays?

The Ecology Frame focuses on achieving your goals in a way that benefits everybody. It involves acting morally and setting up scenarios where everybody wins."

Everything a gay man does makes a political statement. Everything matters: where you bank, where you shop, where you eat. When you hold your lover's hand in public

Tiffs among the faggots were apparently the stuff of quiet merriment.