Quotes About Community

Everything is for your benefit so that, as grace extends through more and more people, it may cause thanksgiving to increase to the glory of God. (2 Cor. 4:15)

She and her late husband, Leander Cross, a prominent surgeon of the darker nation, were, in my childhood, perhaps the leading host of the Gold Coast party circuit, a circuit my parents traveled often, because it was, in those days, what one did: glittering dinner at one house on the Friday, champagne brunch at another on the Sunday, caterers, cooks, even temporary butlers at the ready as the best of black Washington charged about in mad imitation of white people's foolishness.

See how the passengers all turn and talk to one another now as they get nearer and nearer to the little town.

The Prophet in Our Midst

we will never become the men we are called to be unless we learn the art of friendship and intentionally cultivate deep, meaningful, rowdy relationships with other men.

Take it from me, local government offices are mostly about flexi-time and cake. Cake comes in for birthdays, for house moves, for news of engagements, births, weddings, christenings, driving tests, kids making the cross-country team or passing grade one piano. There is no news too small that it can't be celebrated with chocolate brownies for the whole office.

a Demoniac being left in a Room, in which were 18 loaded Muskets," shot three men and wounded another with a sword, "upon which the People present, without further Ceremony, shot him dead."151 For the Founders, the right of the subject to be armed for defense of self and the community was necessary to suppress such tragedies—they never imagined a world in which they would be disarmed for the supposed benefit of preventing access to weapons by madmen.

Religions cannot be reduced to "belief systems" any more than they can be reduced to "ritual systems." Belief is a part of most religions, but only a part, and in most cases not the most important part.

Can one really believe in the church universal and profess America First without offense to the body of Christ?

Dejaste de ser un príncipe cuando abandonaste a tu gente.

It has ever been thus. The way is hard and narrow, it is true. But it is a path beaten smooth by the countless others who have gone before us. And good news! We do not have to walk it alone. God Himself is with us and has blessed us with friends for the journey.

Where food is taken alone, the repast is meager," answered the ancient one affably. "Yet, where meat is shared among true companions of the hearth, the meal becomes a feast!

To friends! Life belongs to those who love, and where love reigns is man truly king!

If the great internet connects us all ... then why are so many of us becoming increasingly isolated?

Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions.

Without friends you have nothing!

When we make friends then we change from being animals to being human.

The first rule when you are in a hole is to ask for a hand out!

If someone does not consider those around them to be valuable and hold only themselves in high regard, they too have a very bad self-esteem.

To be happy, make others happy.

If you can't quite make it as a high flier then join a trampoline club.

Humans, unlike Jedi, are powerfully afraid of rejection. We do not survive well alone, so humans as a species are especially vulnerable to thoughts that make us afraid the rest of the "tribe" will desert us to die a sad, lonely death.

You may only be a small musical note in the realms of life, but together with others you make a symphony.

One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words.