Quotes About Community

What is called 'offence to a community' is more often than not actually a struggle within communities.

With God's breath in the church we are called to exhale, but not because it's a morally good thing to do but because we can't help ourselves.

My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

Library stacks from this perspective are not a repository; they are a crowd.

Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

The distinction between the Pilgrims, those who came to Plymouth between 1620 and 1630, and the Puritans, who came after 1629, initially settling Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut, eventually disappeared as the great wave of Puritan settlers transformed the colony.16

Welcome to Haiti, Doctor. We need people like you here.' If you need people like me, it's because of people like you.

So I'm paying my tithes because I love You. And I love the church, and I want to see it go forward and succeed.

Someone said, "I can stay home and be as good a Christian as anybody." You can't do it. The Bible says, "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching" (Heb. 10:25).

No, we don't go to church because we're in love with the pastor or the pastor's wife or the Sunday school teacher. We should go to church because we love God and want to worship Him.

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit.

we do not know how to survive without other people to care for us and to teach us. Therefore, humans must discover ways of effectively interacting both with their environment and with each other. They must learn how to construct the knowledge, including rules of living, that will enable them to survive. This knowledge, the manner in which it is presented (in the family, in the neighborhood, in literature, art, school lessons, etc.), and the meaning it has for us is called culture.

o fato de um relato parecer ser "exato" ou não é algo que irá depender de uma tradição da comunidade (...) "falar a verdade" é falar de uma forma que confirme a tradição de uma determinada comunidade.

As goes the family, so goes the faith; as goes the faith, so goes the culture.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

We may not agree on what a good society is, but... we will never have one until we realize that the public we complain about is us.

Any who live, stand alone in one place, together.

The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure an hour.

Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy

The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, assumes personal responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and keeps out of it. Without this hidden conspiracy of good will, society would not endure an hour.

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

But answering, He said to them, My mother and my brothers and sisters are these who the word of God are hearing and doing.

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.