Quotes About Community

You "like" my status update and I'll "like" yours.

Personal Goal: To maintain close and rewarding friendships with a group of people who are important to me. Key Activities Supporting This Goal: 1. Regularly take the time for meaningful connection with those who are most important to me (e.g., a long talk, a meal, joint activity). 2. Give of myself to those who are most important to me (e.g., making nontrivial sacrifices that improve their lives). Not

Humans have maintained rich and fulfilling social lives for our entire history without needing the ability to send a few bits of information each month to people we knew briefly during high school.

In the US, there's one CrossFit box for every two Starbucks—an incredible reach for a fitness brand.

As Kraybill elaborates, they confront the following questions: "Is this going to be helpful or is it going to be detrimental? Is it going to bolster our life together, as a community, or is it going to somehow tear it down?

Biz insanlar, geli?mek için yaln?zl??a ihtiyaç duyuyoruz ve son y?llarda fark?nda olmadan bu kritik davran??a hayatlar?m?zda sistematik olarak daha az yer verir hale geldik. Velhas?l?kelam, ?öyle de denebilir: ?nsan devreleri, sürekli ba?lant? halinde olacak ?ekilde ba?lanmam??t?r.

we should treat with great care any new technology that threatens to disrupt the ways in which we connect and communicate with others. When you mess with something so central to the success of our species, it's easy to create problems.

could never have turned his back on human society, nor society on him, and why? Because he was—perversely, perhaps, but utterly—tied to that society. He was its offspring, its sick conscience—a living reminder of all the hidden crimes we commit when we close ranks to live among each other. He craved human society, craved the chance to show people what their 'society' had done to him. And the odd thing is, society craved him, too.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

New converts keep old converts alive and reminiscent of their own wonderful moments of conversion.

People come to church with their hearts on their sleeves. They are longing to be told that God loves them.9 They want to be told that they are special to God and the very fact that he loves them means they have significance.

Long ago I learned that more than half of any pastor's congregation come to church broken and in the grip of some life issue that is eating at their wellbeing.

Community is essential, but the fundamental calling of the church is global.

Churches that ignore their communities will not grow, and churches that will not globalize don't matter much.

The naked statement—a black man has been killed by a white policeman—is such a fearsome divider of the races that the people who preside over a city immediately try to cover it with details.

Long Island is the single most segregated suburban area in the United States.

The people of Abadan defended the city with empty hands, and our sons and brothers fell to the ground like flowers in the fall. My friend, believe me, today the date palms are broken. Tell me, when will our youth, our date palms, be green again?

There is that sense that we have to all come together, the challenges have become so great for the human species that it's going to take all of us to find our way out. One of the ways to achieve this goal, of course, is to expand the freedom of religions so that those people who use psychedelics within their religious practise are able to do so. -Rick Doblin

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is the moments we share with one another when we're uncool.

I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.

A single voice and yet a chorus.

It was the everyday people who were our country's true lifeblood. If they should fail, so would we all.

The sound of communal prayer—its growling honesty, its rhythm as relentless and essential as heartbeats—moves me with its direction and makes me believe that distance can be overcome. It is the only thing that offers me hope that where borders and wars and revolutions divide and scatter us, something singular and true unites us. It tames this English soil.