Quotes About Community

They're right next door." "We can still hike out down the Angels Landing

If I sit inside, then nobody will know I'm in trouble. And so then nobody will help me.

Is this person I'm supposed to be judging our tribe, or another tribe? If she's us, mistakes can be forgiven. Hell, everybody makes mistakes. The mistake becomes an anomaly, because it's us, and we're good people. If she's them, mistakes need to be punished, because that's just how they are.

this was his single greatest quality: he made everybody feel dear. And the sad truth of this world is that not many people feel that way, and not much of the time. I

It's just communication with other humans, and I don't know why everyone is so afraid of it.

Well, if we're being honest with ourselves, it's hard most of the time. But we have each other. What else do we have but each other? And what would we do without each other? It would be unbearable.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

You can be just a regular, real person and still be the magic somebody else needs in her life. We do it for each other all the time. It's that everyday sort of magic. We're all capable of it, I do believe, but still you don't always see people living up to that potential.

We can be angels to each other. We are angels to each other, all the time. And we should be. No divine intervention required. Just a sense of staying together and looking out for each other. You know. Safety in numbers.

Our problem is not that you feel one way and I feel another. Our problem is coming to us from outside this house.

Everyone, everywhere was having a life.

When an eleven-year-old boy can be beaten within an inch of his life for walking down the street with the wrong friend . . . ," he said, ". . . well, I just don't see what chance we have, Lucy. We'll get somebody killed.

A dream has more than one owner. It belongs to everyone it may choose to touch. Whomever it concerns.

Lots of people use helping somebody to make their life feel like more.

So maybe you're sitting here thinking, I have a right to fire my gun if I think I'm in danger. But does your neighbor have a right to fire his gun at you if he thinks you're a danger to him?

Politics—good politics—is public service. There is no life or occupation in which a man can find a greater opportunity to serve his community or his country. —HARRY TRUMAN

In the process of helping children prepare to minister and in doing ministry together, important relationships can develop between child and adult. When we know one another and are known, identity builds. Working together with adults, children have the opportunity to follow the example of those adults.

If the kingdom of God belongs to children, they deserve full welcome and participation; they need to grow up as noticed, valued, and nurtured members of the faith community.

The church has a greater potential than any other institution for providing the community so desperately needed by persons of all ages; it is the means God designed to provide support and resources for life's journey.

God did not intend for a father and a mother to shoulder the full load of child rearing without the support of an extended family and a faith community. Will our faith communities connect with young people and become an extended family for them?

Imagine children watching as the Levites took down the tabernacle or put it up again. There was mystery as the Levites carried the tabernacle furnishings.

religion, but not faith, can be taught. Faith must be inspired within a faith community.

People who care about the spiritual formation of children must be concerned about the spiritual formation of the parents and their finding of a place in the faith community.

Older children need a community of peers and adults with whom to begin forming a synthetic-conventional faith and to begin establishing for themselves a set of values, beliefs, and commitments that will guide their decision making and energize their wills to live out those commitments—a community that knows and lives its faith.