Quotes About Community

When God's people begin to praise and worship Him using the Biblical methods He gives, the power of His presence comes among His people in an even greater measure.

I belong to the tribe of the grasshopper, not that of the ant.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.

This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them. Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

He started reading local papers six months before he got to town and arranged regular breakfast meetings for local pastors.

Little by little they all gathered around him, entering through the cracks like moonbeams...[b]ut once the wind of misfortune blows, people disperse like little clouds around the moon when the wind blows off the mountains.

A civilization flourishes when people plant trees under which they will never sit.

A thousand men can't undress a naked man.

A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.

Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.

Let's face it. In most of life we really are interdependent. We need each other. Staunch independence is an illusion, but heavy dependence isn't healthy, either. The only position of long-term strength is interdependence: win/win.

When the two terms and their definitions are combined into one term, translated philoxenia, we see that hospitality literally means "showing brotherly love to strangers.

Andy Stanley writes,"We must remove every possible obstacle from the path of the disinterested, suspicious, here-against-my-will, would-rather-be-somewhere-else, unchurched guests. The parking lot, hallways, auditorium, and stage must be obstacle-free zones."5 I

I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.

The world is full of broken people who think they are surrounded by whole people.

Having been born into a large litter and raised, as one republican put it, in a shared New World household, Spanish American nations were socialized at an early age. The United States, in contrast, was created lonely and raised thinking it was one of a kind.

Anglo society moved forward not as a uniform front against Native Americans but more fluidly, as if it were poured into the interstices separating Indian nations and communities.

Into a world splattered with hate, the body of Christ must now move-dripping with grace and veined with love.

We are to share what we've gone through with one another. This is how we encourage one another. This is how we embody the very presence of the God of all comfort.

Start with humility. It's an ingredient in all loving communities.

Every testimony is valid because there is someone out there a lot like you.

You show me a church that does not have a constant flow of new Christians coming in, and I will show you a church that is stagnating. We in the church have a choice: evangelize or fossilize! The

Jesus did not say that the whole world should go to church, but He did say that the church should go to the whole world. Esther