Quotes About Community

When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.

It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.

What did it mean to be a Jewish woman, and how did that differ from being a white or mainstream one? Why were middle-class Jews Democrats, and some of our equally middle-class Protestant neighbors Republican?

Our Jewishness was racially a middle place to experience womanhood. In relation to mainstream white folks, the women of my family felt different. However, in relation to African Americans, we experienced ourselves as mainstream and white.

There won't be separate stalls in heaven.

Just as a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon, so too do you shine with the light of your family, your people, and your God. So you are never far from home, never alone, wherever you go.

It's so good to have the opportunity to help others who have helped you. It's not about "tit for tat," it's about "I love you, too.

It is sad when people only use their connections & resources for themselves. How very self-centered. Use your platform to help others.

As we scatter kindness, we help to create a safe space where we can openly share the gospel with others. We get to see a life change right before our eyes. Not only the life of another. But our lives as well.

Doing life with others brings incredible joy.

Show me who your friends are, and I will show you who you are." If

When we live generously, joy is ours because we invest more in people than possessions.

solitude is not primarily about withdrawing from people, but withdrawing for people. Jesus withdrew for the sake of reengaging people to love, heal, and bless them. Solitude does require that we get alone, but we do it so when we reengage with family, friends, or coworkers, we are the kind of people who love others well.

We used to fly past shoppers in the town centre and especially in the winter, wrapped up in our duffle coats, woolen hats and scarves we used to get so warm that there would soon be coats unbuttoned, scarves trailing behind and rosy cheeks by the time we got to school.

No rational person would intentionally commit an act of evil, for everyone knows that it would bring the wrath of the community upon him. (Socrates)

Ideas will not save us, he thought. Not right or wrong not peace or retribution. Our stories are all we have. The only thing that can ever save us is to learn each other's stories. From beginning to end.

Home is where some know who you are ..From the poem 'The Children's Exodus

Southern hospitality and Amish cooking - Ya'll Come Back, Danki.

Lisa's mama says all people are part of Christ's body, so some people have to be the armpits.

I have a hunger, for more than food. I have a hunger bigger than Joyce City. I want tongues to tie, and eyes to shine at me like they do at Mad Dog Craddock. Course they never will, not with my hands all scarred up, looking like the earth itself, all parched and rough and cracking, but if I played right enough, maybe they would see past my hands. Maybe they could feel at ease with me again, and maybe then, I could feel at east with myself.

We might not belong to anyone else in this whole world. But us Faulstiches,we belong to each other.

I'm a hard-of-hearing man in the hearing world and I'm a Deaf man with a little hearing in the Deaf world. I'm not one or the other—I'm both! Because Deaf people come all different ways—just like ice cream.

S? îmbr??i?ezi tr?s?turile definitorii ale regiunii în care te-ai n?scut este o form? de apartenen?? la o familie extins?, dar f?r? obliga?iile uzuale. Este un mod de a apar?ine unui grup, f?r? s? se a?tepte de la tine s? faci vizite de Cr?ciun.

Drinking wine then—as small as that action can seem—is both grounding and transformative. It reminds us of other things that matter, too: love, friendship, generosity.