Quotes About Community

There are some towns so small that your second best friend is your third worst enemy.

The rich and poor are but different ventricles of the same heart of humanity.

With radio the whole world is brought to your own fireside.

This world abounds indeed with misery: to lighten its burthen we must divide it with one another.

Two crossing the ford are best near each other.

Pity him who has few foster-friends.

Merry Christmas v. Happy Holidays... Why be exclusive when you can be inclusive?

Let every man sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean.

Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.

Don't do it behind the garden gate. Love is blind but the neighbors ain't!

Honk if you hate noise pollution.

I, who have no sisters nor brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends...

Bare is shoulder without brother, bare hearth without sister.

You know you're a skydiver when on windy days you go to the drop zone anyway and complain about the weather.

You know you're a skydiver when you show up at the drop zone even on the worst-weather days because at least you can sit around drinking beer.

We can challenge and encourage one another, but we cannot live the Christian life or respond to the convicting ministry of the Spirit for one another.

than twenty-eight thousand buildings destroyed. Many of those buildings were homes. Whole communities had been decimated.

It is the flow of a communal action that is full of the overflowing grace of God, present in gestures and concrete signs as well as in words.

Two hands are too small a bowl. One heart is a hill too small, to rest on.

Ich fürchte, grad unter Menschen möchtest du ein Mensch zu sein verlernen.

Haloes of heat shimmer from the guests and their hosts. The candles burn brighter. The plump flies of dusk now congregate around the plates of cheese and crackers on the wooden table. From the cut glass bowl of children's punch, sweet rosy fumes spiral up into the air.

Our challenge, as we enter the new millennium, is to deepen the commonalities and the bonds between these tens of millions, while at the same time continuing to address the issues within our local communities by two-sided struggles that not only say "No" to the existing power structure but also empower our constituencies to embrace the power within each of us to crease the world anew.

We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses.

The main reason why Western civilization lacks Spirituality, or an awareness of our interconnectedness with one another and the universe, according to Gandhi, is that it has given priority to economic and technological development over human and community development.