Quotes About Community

For aught known to the contrary, the good farmers of Yorkshire are, in a great measure, indebted to the bones of their children for their daily bread.

Prophets see the mile-long stands of photovoltaic cells in projects like Charanka as inherently destructive to communities, natural and human.

In the first two centuries of colonization, the border between natives and newcomers was porous, almost nonexistent. The two societies mingled in a way that is difficult to imagine now. In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, the aging John Adams recalled the Massachusetts of his youth as a multiracial society. "Aaron Pomham the Priest and Moses Pomham the Kind of the Punkapaug and Neponsit Tribes were frequent Visitors at my Father's House Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Their alarm was easy to understand. The law would give control of a substantial part of the Amazon to its residents

The belief that human life will continue, even if we ourselves die, is one of the underpinnings of society.

Like all too many dictators, Cahokia's rulers focused on maintaining their hold over the people, paying little attention to external reality. By 1350 A.D. the city was almost empty. Never again would such a large Indian community exist north of Mexico.

For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God. Ephesians 2:18,19

No need to act all hoity-toity. Aloofness is a bore. We're all lonely in one way or another.

We are more intimately bound to one another by our kindred doubts than our brave conclusions.

Alone, you're vastly outnumbered; but in the company of another, by some weird miracle of human math, the odds seem wonderfully improved in your favor.

In Switzerland the slaves and masters work together

It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them, sharing the human condition and being present to them in love.

After she had licked the last white drop of the ice cream, she reached out her cone to Mrs. McKennet and said, "Here's your little horn back.

If every generation helps the next take one step up, imagine where we might all be someday.

But God in his infinite wisdome had apparently thought it was an entertaining idea for us to always be wanting to get up in one another.

Charles J. Shields

around which pigs and barefoot children grunted in loving communion of dirt.

The library was magical because every time I walked through the door, there were literally thousands of voices ready and willing to have a conversation with me. I walked through the door, stared at all those stacks and bindings, and whispered, Tell me a story.

We all give meaning to each other's lives. As long as we live.

By sheer grace, God will not permit us to live even for a brief period in a dream world. " —LIFE TOGETHER

To be in Christ ... means to be in the church." —THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP

My burden is borne by the others; their strength is my strength; when I falter and fail, the faith of the church comes to my aid." —SANCTORUM COMMUNIO

Lord, help me to see that what I have has been given and this makes a claim on me to be generous and not to hold things simply to myself. Amen.

Sometime in my ministry, I am going to gather up enough courage to have a testimony time where the only thing we'll share is our failures.