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Quotes About Community

There is no salvation outside the church.
~ St. Augustine
Every city is a living body.
~ St. Augustine
Human friendship also is endeared with a sweet tie, by reason of the unity formed of many souls.
~ St. Augustine
O sons of Peace, sons of the One Catholic [Church], walk in your way, and sing as you walk. Travelers do this in order to keep up their spirits.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
In this one man, the whole Church has been assumed by the Word.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
We are He, since we are His body and since He was made man in order to be our Head.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
The members of Christ, many though they be, are bound to one another by the ties of charity and peace under the one Head, who is our Saviour Himself, and form one man. Often their voice is heard in the Psalms as the voice of one man; the cry of one is as the cry of all, for all are one in One.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
When the Head and members are despised, then the whole Christ is despised, for the whole Christ, Head and body, is that just man against whom deceitful lips speak iniquity.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
He no more wished to speak alone than He wished to exist alone, since He says: Behold, I am with you all days, unto the consummation of the world (Matt. 28:20). If He is with us, then He speaks in us, He speaks of us, and He speaks through us; and we too speak in Him.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
Though absent from our eyes, Christ our Head is bound to us by love. Since the whole Christ is Head and body, let us so listen to the voice of the Head that we may also hear the body speak.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
A brother who's helped by a brother is like a strong city.
~ St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
~ St. Thomas Aquinas
The happy man in this life needs friends.
~ St. Thomas Aquinas
Toffee chip cookies, pine nut shortbread, raspberry oatmeal bars." She rattles them off. "Sophie says hi and thank you for the onion kuchen recipe, she really appreciated the share. Sent you a Nutella babka as a present." Marcy hands over a second, smaller bag that feels like a brick. Sophie Langer's Nutella babka is about the most perfect food I've ever put in my mouth.
~ Stacey Ballis
Bubbles enters with a plate overflowing with rugelach. The three of us fall silent as we indulge in the small snail-shaped pastries of tender cream-cheese-infused dough wrapped around various fillings: one with walnuts and cinnamon, one bursting with chocolate, one with a thick, sweet poppy seed paste, and one with apricot jam that has been bumped up with some chewy bits of diced dried apricots.
~ Stacey Ballis
So tonight we are just seven. Seven people, and twelve pounds of pork. I pick a piece of the insanely delicious crispy skin and feel it crunch between my teeth. Suddenly the ratio seems perfectly normal. Gene rubbed it with his secret spice mix early this morning, and it's been roasting in a slow oven all day. Andrea's creamy grits are the perfect thing to soak up the thick gravy, Jasmin's parsnips and pears are caramelized and sweet, and everyone praises my chard and chickpeas.
~ Stacey Ballis
My friend Alana comes over with her husband RJ, and they both kiss me simultaneously on my cheeks. They live in the neighborhood, and we sometimes have doggie playdates with Volnay and their dogs Dumpling and Pamplemousse.
~ Stacey Ballis
Chicago is a city of neighborhoods. We aren't trying to be all things to all people; we just want to be good neighbors. What's more Chicago than that?" "You
~ Stacey Ballis
As far as the girls in my grade, it was always kind of an on-and-off thing. When all this came up, it was kind of hard. My guy friends and my family friends have been so amazing and supportive.
~ Stacie Orrico
Before a small, unknown Methodist college was transformed into Duke University in the late 1920s, the city of Durham had been a backwater, known mostly for minor league baseball and cigarettes.
~ Stacy Horn
Ye Shall Have a Song From Randall Thompson's The Peaceable Kingdom, written in 1936 Performed by the Choral Society of Grace Church in the Winter, 2011 Water Night Eric Whitacre, 1995 Performed by Stacy Horn alone on January 10, 2012 Fate and Faith Songs Britlin Losee, 2011 Performed by the Women's Choir of the Aaron Copland School of Music, 2012
~ Stacy Horn
Women play the villains in fairy tales—what are you saying when you place the very emblem of lowly domestic duty between your legs and ride off, defying the bounds of community and laws of gravity?
~ Stacy Schiff
Football is the opera of the people.
~ Stafford Heginbotham