Quotes About Community

We may say that there is a Jewish Pentecost, a Samaritan Pentecost, and a Gentile Pentecost.10

The baptism with the Spirit is the act of the Holy Spirit joining together into a spiritual unity people of diverse racial extractions and diverse social backgrounds so that they form the body of Christ — the ekkl?sia.

The local congregation is not part of the church; the universal church is not thought of as the sum and total of its parts; rather, the local congregation is the church in its local expression.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom on the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Limits to the wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none." Note well: the community's right is "absolute.

their happiness as some other tribe's unhappiness. As a quintessentially American voice, that of Robert Frost,

it is arguable that the most molecular word in political discourse, the noun that denotes something on which all else depends and builds, is neither "justice" nor "freedom" nor "equality." It is "family." Without the nurturing and disciplining done in intact families, individuals are apt to be ill-equipped to exercise the freedom to become unequal, and therefore are handicapped in the pursuit of justice for themselves and others.

Let us be French, let us be English, but above all, let us be Canadians! - John A. MacDonald, First Prime Minister of Canada

Let us be French, let us be English, but above all, let us be Canadians!

Inventing the government was the preface to inventing a nation. Governments can be machines, but nations have to accommodate the actual lives of people. People don't live abstract lives. They live real ones, within nations, and those nations give them a sense of who they are.

It is mankind that has survived, not any one man. The fitness includes and depends on social organization, cooperation.

No, it's human, Curran said. That's the problem. People, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led. It's easy to be a cog in a machine: you don't have to think, you have no responsibility. You're just following orders. Doing as your told.

The porch light came on and Aunt B swung the door open. Middle-aged and stout, with graying hair rolled into a bun, she looked like she should be baking cookies, not ruling a brood of social deviants with a penchant for hysterical laughter and kinky sex.

Being human in our world is synonymous with being included into the framework of society.

I respect your right to differ, but that doesn't change reality. I cannot have people thrown through windows willy-nilly in my county.

To answer your question, yes, you may kiss my ass. Normally I prefer to maintain my personal space, but you're a Friend of the Pack and your services have proven useful once or twice. I strive to accommodate the wishes of persons friendly to my people. My only question is, would your kissing my ass be obeisance, grooming, or foreplay?

We are family. You will always have a place in my house. I won't abandon you... You have people, Julie. You are not alone.

No, it's human," Curran said. "That's the problem. People, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led. It's easy to be a cog in a machine: you don't have to think, you have no responsibility. You're just following orders. Doing as you're told.

If this is a lynch mob, you didn't bring enough people," I said.

People, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led. It's easy to be a cog in a machine: you don't have to think, you have no responsibility. You're just following orders. Doing as you're told.

Hey," I told him. "What's going on?" "Paul's nephew has been kidnapped by a local gang. About 50 people. I'm going to get him back." Curran grinned at me. "Will you be home in time for dinner?