Quotes About Community

The ways you and I conduct our Christian lives and the churches we attend are culturally influenced,

I've always thought the most effective method of distribution is to give your work away.

You will save our people.

It was tough attempting to be social with people who'd rather pretend you didn't exist.

We were the new people here. We weren't part of their group. We had to prove ourselves.

When we sit down to eat a meal together, especially when we are breaking bread that we have ourselves made, we gain far more than calories.

that was New York for you, always changing. New groups of people came in on a daily basis. Some people liked it, some people continued to hate foreigners, even though they themselves had been the foreigners of a previous decade or century.

Face-to-face, real-time connection to others feels fraught and awkward compared to the safe distance of digital communication. We maintain intimate virtual contact with strangers but seem increasingly isolated from our closest friends and family members.

Our culture exerts a constant pressure on us that severs our relationship to ourselves and each other.

We're called to speak to people to whom we often don't feel like speaking; to refrain from surrounding ourselves with people "just like us," whose thoughts, ideas, and actions we can more or less manage and control; to share not just with the poor, but with the rich, the mediocre, the irritating, the Republicans, the Democrats, because we never know who the poor are. We never know whose heart is hemorrhaging. We never know who needs a kind work, a smile, a helping hand.

the opposite of holding on is participating in something larger than ourselves.

If the snow keeps me home from an important meeting, I'll take a walk in it. Shovel my neighbor's stoop. Then build a snowman at the end of the driveway. When was the last time I did that?

It's as if we are all moving through this world on a big old ship, holding on to one another as we cruise up the generous river of life. The water that floats us is always new, yet it flows in the same direction, over the same old sand.

A life spent working and living in a small town with people I may disagree with has taught me a lot about humility and forgiveness. And when to keep my mouth shut. Some lessons have been more painful than others, but my days and my life are richer because of them.

Yes I don't love you God because I sit in a world where all our love is already shared.

They're like a terrorist cell with casseroles.

Everything written by any woman was written by all women, because they all benefited from it. If one woman was a genius, it was proof that it was possible for the rest of them.

The Franklin didn't only belong to Tasmanians. Nor our forests. They belonged to the world. We were custodians.

Heather Vogel Frederick

A community is like a family," she told him, "and every family has a few odd ducks. The important thing to remember is that they're still family.

Papa was right, after all. A ship's crew was like a family, and together we had done what we never could have managed alone.

Jess falls asleep with her head against Darcy's shoulder, and I see Mr. Hawthorne waggle his eyebrows at Mrs. Hawthorne, who smiles over at Mrs. Delaney. I guess I'm not the only one who's noticed what's going on.

Friends are one of life's richest blessings.

Choose people who will lift you up. —Michelle Obama