Quotes About Community

Sharing what you've learned and helping others is a good source of renewal.

God became man that dehumanized men might become true men. We become true men in the community of the incarnate, the suffering and loving, the human God.

Because of Christ's prevenient and unconditional invitation, the fellowship of the table cannot be restricted to people who are 'faithful to the church', or to the 'inner circle' of the community. For it is not the feast of the particularly righteous, of the people who think that they are particularly devout; it is the feast of the weary and heavy-laden, who have heard the call to refreshment.

It is only as a unity in diversity that the Christian community will become an inviting community in a society which is otherwise pretty uniform. Creation is motley and diverse, and the new creation even more so.

I should never have allowed the gates of the town to be opened to people who assert that there are higher considerations than those of decency.

Technically speaking, there are people in Nebraska. live been there. l met both of them.

but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)

Get out of the lab occasionally, Stiles. Why? There are people out there. Nothing fucks things up faster than people.

Sadder and sadder," Peabody said when they were back on the sidewalk. "I guess you don't think of how many people you brush up against, or how they might remember you. The guy at your corner deli, or the owner of your favorite take-out spot. The clerk where you usually shop for clothes. Not to sound too Free-Agey, but it matters. It all matters, what we leave behind with the people we brush up against.

It's Nerd World," Peabody said. "Or Geek Galaxy. I can't decide which because it's full of nerds and geeks." "It's Nerd World in the Geek Galaxy.

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When I ducked out, she was talking to Ana Whitney and some Roarke exec about knitting. The three of them were into it like it was their religion.

This is what happened when you went and made friends. They had to go out and make friends, and then those friends somehow insinuated themselves into your life, or your work. Before you knew it you were hip-deep in people.

She now had a small army of cops to—if they actually found the bastard—take down one man. But she understood the sentiment, and the need. You came for one, you came for all.

Why? There are people out there. Nothing fucks things up faster than people.

Our differences are only skin deep, but our sames go down to the bone.

Geeks born of the same motherboard

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. —LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH

We're colorful, playful fish in an incestuous little pond.

There are people out there. Nothing fucks things up faster than people.

Can you work in a stop by the Miras' sometime today?

This is what happened when you went and made friends. They had to go out and make friends, and then those friends somehow insinuated themselves into your life, or your work. Before you knew it you were hip-deep in people. And half of them were crazy.

That's a risk, isn't it? Perhaps the murderer is a fine, upstanding pillar of his community who was equally misguided.

How many people are there left who are neither locked up nor standing guard at the gate?