Quotes About Community

The way we are, we are members of each other. All of us. Everything. The difference ain't in who is a member and who is not, but in who knows it and who don't.

I loved the different voices all singing one song, the various tones and qualities, the passing lifts of feeling, rising up and going out forever. Old Man Profet, who was a different man on Sunday, used to draw out the notes at the ends of verses so he could listen to himself, and in fact it sounded pretty.

There can be no such thing as a "global village." No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it.

A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.

For agrarians, the correct response is to stand confidently on our fundamental premise, which is both democratic and ecological: the land is a gift of immeasurable value. If it is a gift, then it is a gift to all the living in all time. To withhold it from some is finally to destroy it for all. For a few powerful people to own or control it all, or decide its fate, is wrong.

Take away health, wealth, and material success and all you have is each other. Maybe that's the place we should start.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

Aelred writes that true Christian friendship begins with two people who are drawn to some quality of holiness or virtue they see in each other. Since both persons love Jesus Christ and want to build their friendship on their love of Christ, Jesus is, in a real sense, the third person in their friendship.

As Catholic Christians, we may have come to a point today where we feel like foreigners in our own country—" strangers in a strange land," in the beautiful English of the King James Bible (Ex 2: 22). But the deeper problem in America isn't that we believers are "foreigners." It's that our children and grandchildren aren't.

We're on a journey to a heavenly home, and we need all the help we can get. Societies

Garden City: Dreams in a Kansas Town

The irony is, if we divide ourselves for our own comfort, no one will have comfort.

Jim Adams, Kurt's nephew, found "there was a definite disconnect between the kind of guy you would imagine Kurt must be from the tone of his books, the kind of guy who would say, 'God damn it, you got to be kind,' and the reality of his behavior on a daily basis. He was a complicated, difficult man.… I think he admired the idea of love, community, and family from a distance, but couldn't deal with the complicated emotional elements they included."142

Krauthammer's Law: Everyone is Jewish until proven otherwise. I've had a fairly good run with this one.

The more settled and ordered one's life - and in particular one's communal life - the easier it becomes for one's imagination to fail.

If you've got a business—you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. —Barack Obama, Roanoke, Va., July 13, 2012

Sephardic Jewish tradition and home to

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

From the recovery experience of hundreds of thousands of people, we know that there is an effective way out of this constricting and binding effect of shame: to tell the story of our suffering to safe and supportive others. (51)

When we allow ourselves to feel these painful feelings, give them an accurate name, and when we share the grief with safe and supportive others over time, we are able to complete our grief work and thus be free of it.

Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing