Quotes About Community

A tree grows its branches out until it touches the tips of the next closest tree. And they're linked forever. Because if they're really close, their roots grow together. They're so intertwined underneath that no matter what happens above ground, they stay connected.

The burden isn't on me to explain it, Rich. The burden's on y'all to fix it. Good luck.

This is that family feeling, he thought. Of total acceptance, belonging to people. A connection that eclipsed everything.

Lizette felt that since Belle Fleur was full of Black folks who looked white, numbers suggested that many whites could be Black. It was all a fine line in the South, she'd say. Given that those sinning, raping plantation owners had both white babies and Black babies, everyone was six degrees from being one or the other. Which was what scared southern white people the most.

and, no matter who they are, where they come from, or what they look like, you know that you're made of the same stuff." "So, because of this soul tribe member, you're turning down what you've wanted your whole life?

You know what I read?" asked Eva through her pasted-on smile. "A tree grows its branches out until it touches the tips of the next closest tree. And they're linked forever. Because if they're really close, their roots grow together. They're so intertwined underneath that no matter what happens above ground, they stay connected.

Today there is help all around—articles abound on these subjects, 12-step rooms are around the corner, and help is down the hall in many schools and workplaces. But we have to reach out and take hold of the help. And we have to stick with it until we can create meaningful change in our lives.

We might not want to share our food or our money, but we do want to share our judgement. We want others to think we have more fun.But we need meeting-places of the mind. A Kilimanjaro of spirit that we've all visited so we can say of other things: it's shorter, or taller, or the same height as Kilimanjaro.

I always felt like that myself, that I didn't marry into the landscape of the human world like others did

Cancer doesn't discriminate.

There is a truism in the world of architecture that design creates culture.

The first thing they heard was the voices of an angry mob shouting "Salope! Salope!"—the

Women are traditionally trained to place others' needs first… their satisfaction to be in making it possible for others to use their abilities.

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All men like to think that they can do it alone, but a real man knows that there no substitute for support , encouragement or a pit crew.

I feel apart from everything and a part of everything.

A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.

The Christian community demonstrates the effectiveness of the gospel. We are the living proof that the gospel is not an empty word but a powerful word that takes men and women who are lovers of self and transforms them by grace through the Spirit into people who love God and others. We are the living proof that the death of Jesus was not just a vain expression of God's love but an effective death that achieved the salvation of a people who now love one another sincerely from a pure

We need to shift our focus from putting on attractional events to creating attractional communities.

The task is to become church for them, among them and with them, and under Spirit of God to lead them to become church in their own culture.

There is a third way to understand the church, which combines what is true in both false images, and which recognizes that we have a responsibility both to worship God and to serve the world. This is the double identity of the church (or incarnational Christianity). By its "double identity" I mean that the church is a people who have been both called out of the world to worship God and sent back into the world to witness and serve.

We were not made to look inward for self-realization, but to look outwards in love. I

We may not long for bread, but we long for meaning, intimacy, fulfillment, community, purpose, and joy.

a cozy social atmosphere above all else. . . . For those seeking a refuge from the world, the cup of coffee they bought was really just the price of admission to partake of the coffeehouse scene."9 Starbucks is selling us hospitality.