Quotes About Community

All lasting business is built on friendship. - Alfred A. Montapert

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

In times of deep division, great change, and never-ending brokenness, we need brave people of practice to help us keep moving forward.

I believe in every part of my soul that one of the most world-changing practices of love is to help create corrective experiences for people—to have them experience, in the flesh, something different than the damage they received in their family, life, or church.

Our invitation to community, which we read at the beginning of our gatherings, includes this important line: "At The Refuge, everyone gives, everyone receives.

A core principle in our Refuge group is that we all can be an advocate and we all need an advocate. They are not mutually exclusive.

Heroic acts aren't just about running into a burning building to save someone. It's also rising up and saying, "No, I will not let my brothers and sisters be treated this way or the community that I live in harm the vulnerable.

A core piece of the practice of failing is embracing our humanity. Owning it, leaning into it, wearing it, and remembering we are in good company with a whole bunch of other humans who are also struggling with feelings of failure.

When the world is falling apart, it's even more important that we find a way to last. The planet and its people need us to be healthy and grounded, not gasping for breath.

Whether you consider yourself a follower of Jesus or not, a life of changing ourselves to change the world is going to be a bumpy, windy, weird road.

I think that food ties us to our community and our traditions, and it's the thing that makes us feel good and connected.

You are chicken for sure. Got a whole yellow trickle moving the wrong direction down these parts, and a trickle of black folks going the other way. Black and yellow, like a bumblebee.

On the one side was Darcie Burrell—a reed-thin woman with a permanently conflicted expression, as though, deep inside her, someone was trying to bathe a cat. She attended our church, and was famous for praying over people who later

Women are each other's Wonderbras: uplifting, supportive, making each other look bigger and better. (50 shades of feminism)

I'd hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don't have that right.

He is wolf....pack can change. Wolf is wolf.

Chance paused with the door open. "When things go bad for a normal person, what's the first thing they do?" Huh? "What?" "They find their friends.

cultural rituals exist to reinforce the unity of those performing them.

An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps

I see you, Ben. I always have. You're in my pack." He pulled away. "What if being packmates isn't enough for me?

When we buy into those limiting and marginalizing stories, our souls are in exile. We spend our days worrying about pleasing others rather than doing what's right for us—and, ultimately, what's right for our families, our community, and our world.

Many of us commit the error of following the rules of our cultural community, which prevents us from stepping out of our caves and sharing our gifts in the world.

Don't try to save the whole galaxy yourself. Believe me, it doesn't work." -Luke Skywalker

Ninety-year-old Irving Fradkin, an optometrist from Fall River, Massachusetts, who started a grass-roots scholarship fund, flanked by a dozen grateful kids among the hundreds of thousands he'd sent to college.