Quotes About Community

The Black Church has no challenger as the cultural womb of the black community. Not only did it give birth to new institutions such as schools, banks, insurance companies, and low income housing, it also provided an academy and an arena for political activities, and it nurtured young talent for musical, dramatic, and artistic development.

It is more than just maintaining or even growing a church, but believing your church can reach an entire city or a region; believing they can make a difference.

Religion that is confined to the sanctuary is worse than no religion at all, for it is false.

To read and pray the Psalms is to join the voices of numberless people who too have read and prayed them, have felt their joy, anguish, and indignation.

You think you have all the pain you can bear, but yours will be lessened as you bear mine, and mine will be lessened as I bear yours!

This is the moment when what we need most is enough people with the skill, heart, and wisdom to help us pull ourselves back from the edge of breakdown and onto a different path.

Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

What are we all waiting forgathered together like this on the public square?The Barbarians are coming today.

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

Who we are is how we are in relation to others

Who we are is who we are with others. How they seem to us is a revelation of ourselves.

Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations...

The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual.

in so far as society is itself composed of de-individualized human beings, it is completely at the mercy of ruthless individualists.

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Cuando un hombre sabe más que los demás se queda solo. Pero la soledad no surge necesariamente en oposición a la comunidad, puesto que nadie siente más la comunidad que el solitario, y la comunidad florece tan sólo allí donde cada individuo rememora su propia singularidad

There were things in the images which concerned not only myself but many others also. It was then that I ceased to belong to myself alone

It is, unfortunately, only too clear that if the individual is not truly regenerated in spirit, society cannot be either, for society is the sum total of the individuals in need of redemption.

In solitude let there be squandering of abundance. For community is the depth, while solitude is the height. The true order in community purifies and preserves. The true order in solitude purifies and increases. Community gives us warmth, while solitude gives us the light.

No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.

the menstrual cycle may actually be the major part of initiation from a woman's point of view, since it has the power to awaken the deepest sense of obedience to life's creative power over her. Thus she willingly gives herself to her womanly function, much as a man gives himself to his assigned role in the community life of his group.

With these words Schiller acknowledges the equal rights of sensuousness and spirituality. He concedes to sensation the right to its own existence. But at the same time we can see in this passage the outlines of a still deeper thought: the idea of a "reciprocity" between the two instincts, a community of interest, or, in modern language, a symbiosis in which the waste products of the one would be the food supply of the other.

In reality, the source of all these differences is, that the savage lives within himself, while the social man lives constantly outside himself, and only knows how to live in the opinion of others, so that he seems to receive the consciousness of his own existence merely from the judgment of others concerning him. —JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

placing her because of the way she said "my boys" as the heart and soul of the school, the Woman Who Knew Everybody And Everything. He always felt blessed when he met up with such women because they were generally the key to unlocking the secret doors to an institution.