Quotes About Community

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. — RITA MAE BROWN

Part of the process in healing from trauma, like recovering from addiction, is developing connection and support with others.

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

Don't come to church for an emotional experience. Come to church for the truth.

Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.

When a woman has the opportunity to speak truth to power, it's important that she does, even if it's just trying to get a crosswalk in her neighborhood. That's how social change happens!

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

They have a desire to put on plays and to fulfill that traditional role of a theater in a community: to be the place where people go to hear the truth.

Truth is not private property.

To tell you the honest-to-God truth: without Scientology, I would be dead. So, I can personally highly recommend it.

The Gospel purifies and renews, it bears fruit, wherever the community of believers hears it and receives God's grace in truth and charity. This is my confidence, this is my joy.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.

On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!

You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is.

Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary.

The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.

To invite others to live with us is a sign that we aren't afraid, that we have a treasure of truth and of peace to share.