Quotes About Community

A cubic meter of hazelnuts is sufficient to provide 10 percent of the annual energy needs of a mixed population of twenty people.

Robin's experience is his love for his fellow man. He was in the fortunate position of having plenty of money, yet it wasn't just money that he was willing to give away; he gave something far more important – his time and energy. There is little doubt that, were he still alive, he would be planning more ways to help those in need. Whether rich or poor, we can all do more than we do to help others.

Life takes place in restaurants.

For years all the people in his life had been people he'd known for a long time;

Worship is accessible bathrooms. Worship is inclusive language. Worship is protest marches. Worship is food banks. Worship is letter-writing campaigns. Worship is hard conversations with friends, family, and neighbors. Worship is prison abolition.

It's not technically gossip if you start your sentence with "I'm really concerned about __________________ ," (fill in the name of the person you're not gossiping about).

What makes the church truly unique in the life of the people of God is that we are now meant to hold our place in the wall together, in teams of people who worship like monks, live like family, and engage the world like missionaries. But what happens when the church itself goes astray? When the church becomes more of a club than the hands and feet of Jesus? We are called to examine our hearts and test our ways. It is time also to look at the way we do church.

Any place where we can go consistently and remain anonymous is not a witnessing church.

As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians in top hats and diamonds and silk dresses. I don't see bankers and housewives and store clerks. No. I address you all tonight as you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

Freedom means that we become so completely free of self-indulgence that we become servants of one another, expressing love in all we do.

watch over them so that they will be united as one, even as we are one.

The battle for the gospel in the opening years of the twenty-first century is being fought not primarily in the lecture rooms of North American seminaries but in the shanty towns, urban slums and villages of Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

The time was one of great organization and aspiration, of communities, communes, and committees.

Family must rely upon family, since governments do not comprehend families.

An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.

A&R officials helped fashion and disseminate music that often evoked older, highly romanticized and reassuring visions of a simpler, less frenetic, and more communal past.

Islam has strong social aspects based around the concept of ummah – the community of believers – and expressions of individualism or nonconformity tend to be frowned upon. Members are expected to pull together and behave (at least in public) in ways that uphold its Islamic ethos. Thus, when someone breaks away from established norms – especially if they do so publicly – they are liable to be seen as damaging communal solidarity

the illusion of safety I didn't even know I was feeling – the safety of being in a group, the safety of numbers – disappears.

she had little use for separate but so-called equal. My mother understood from her Southern roots a basic principle that still rings true; where there's a white presence, there will be amenities. She wanted grocery stores with quality produce, and roads that got repaired and streeetlights that came on magically at dusk and garbage that got collectd on time.

Where is the outrage of the Muslim community? Why aren't the imams of every mosque holding press conferences, and inviting the media to tell the American public, 'We are Americans first. Any enemy of America is our enemy. We will work to find, stop, arrest, turn in, and condemn anyone in our community who aspires to radicalize our religion and harm our country'?

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.