Quotes About Community

I f you sound your trumpets, we will ring our bells.

You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

When people have tried everything and have discovered that nothing works, they will tend to revert to what they know best—which will often be the tribe, the totem, or the taboo.

But we do believe in religion—at least for other people. It is a means of marketing hope, and of instilling ethical precepts on the cheap. It is also a form of discipline.

It is hardly a surprise if religions choose to address themselves first to the majority who are poor and bewildered and uneducated.

And again and again I have to remind myself the whole art of life is to lean on people, to involve oneself with them quite fearlessly and yet — when the props are kicked away — remain leaning, as it were, on empty air. Like levitation.

A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of a threat to the majority, real or imaginary.

Now, for example, people with freckles aren't thought of as a minority by the non-freckled. They aren't a minority in the sense we're talking about. And why aren't they? Because a minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of a threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary.

It is strange how people seem to belong to places - especially to places where they were not born...

How delightful it is to be here.(Gym) If only one could spend one's entire life in this state of easygoing physical democracy.

All right, we've heard your liberty speech. Does that include us or doesn't it?

I do and always shall maintain that it is the privilege of the richer but less mentally endowed members of the community to contribute to the upkeep of people like myself.

È strano come ogni persona sembri avere un luogo suo… specialmente se non ci è nata.

The jubilee then is about restoring to people the capacity to participate in the economic life of the community for their own viability and society's benefit.

The reality is, of course, as soon as you think seriously about it, that the mission field is everywhere, including your own street – wherever there is ignorance or rejection of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

It is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world, as that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission – God's mission. Chris Wright

To dwell in love with saints above— Oh that will be glory! But to dwell below with saints we know— Ah! That's a different story!

Since the primary manifestation of Yahweh is Israel itself, any misconstruction of Israel entails a misconstruction of Yahweh.

Rather," Soval replied, "the people mutually consent to abide by those rules for their own collective benefit. They ensure their own safety and liberty by agreeing to respect others' safety and liberty—even when that requires making compromises. Absolute, unfettered freedom is only possible for one who lives absolutely alone. When one is part of a community, one must balance one's own freedoms and rights with those of others.

What is your name? asked Lear. Caius, said Kent. And whence do you hail? From Bonking, sire. Well, yes, lad, as do we all, said Lear, but from what town?

Adeline had come to Christianity the same way she had come to sex and smoking:through peer pressure.Thinking about her six kids and her smoker's hack, she wondered if perhaps peer pressure didn't always lead to the best habits.

Cofishes-other fish in a group, coworkers, cohorts, etc. Shut up, it's a word.

They were told what they wanted and they believed it. They can only keep their dream alive by being with others like themselves who will mirror their illusions.