Quotes About Community

The Sabbath is a party, and what is a good party without a drinking song? Almost all the early John Wesley hymns were sung to what at the time was wild pub music.

Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

God is found in the collection of Many. . . rather than in the One.

worst kind of loneliness in the world is the isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality.

Many hands make light work.

Religious communities cooperate better than nonreligious communities and therefore flourish more readily. This is a scientific fact!

Natural light does wonders," Beña replied. "As does the presence of people.

the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them.

Not necessarily. Zobrist may be a pariah in the medical community, but he probably has a legion of devout fans of his ideology—people who agree that a culling is a necessary evil to save the planet. For all we know, these soldiers are trying to ensure that Zobrist's vision is realized.

These kinds of programs require a commitment from the company, which must invest time and energy into the community.

Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.

We're all fools together," he replied. "It's just that a few people know it; others don't. You seem to be one of the latter types. Hand me that small wrench, will you?

These are good people out here,' he said. 'Most honest people in the world. They wouldn't lie to you for anything.' He shook his head. 'But they'll lie to themselves every time.

The world as we know it is ending, my friends, no matter what happens to us

The cybrid allows me to carry out my role in the datumplane community." "As poet?" Johnny smiled again. "More as poem," he said. "A poem?" "An ongoing work of art Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but not in the human sense. A puzzle perhaps. A variable enigma which occasionally offers unusual insights into more serious lines of analysis.

Crawford reacted in the fashion of small towns immemorial – some tongues wagged constantly, some people could not keep the pity and pleasure at someone else's misfortune out of their voices and gazes – but mostly the community folded its protective wings around the Weintraub family like an awkward mother bird shielding its young

was being greeted by a silent, smiling band of bald, retarded children.

It suddenly occurred to Baedecker that small towns in America were saner than cities because they were allowed to sleep.

But I do remember this thing that this famous rabbi wrote once about how Christians build cathedrals, these gorgeous impressive structures, but Jews, with a long history of watching their buildings get destroyed, build their cathedrals in time. The High Holidays. Shabbat. Cathedrals carved out of time that can never be worn down. I know you're no Jew but I kind of think that's what you did with your summer down here.

It's possible to grow up in the wrong house, on the wrong street, in the wrong town, in the wrong part of the country. It's possible to go to the wrong school. To have the wrong dad. To be pushed to do the wrong things. But it is also possible to survive all these psychic indignities if you have one, maybe two people who recognize you for who you are.

I've never heard of any community that failed because it lacked material resources. Communities fail because they lack imagination and spiritual contact and soul and a sense of others and staying power and courage to move together and to live together.

Vulnerability doesn't come after trust—it precedes it. Leaping into the unknown, when done alongside others, causes the solid ground of trust to materialize beneath our feet.

the number-one job is to take care of each other. I didn't always know that, but I know it now.

that this necessity of going out of our houses to buy provisions was in a great measure the ruin of the whole city, for the people catched the distemper on these occasions one of another, and even the provisions themselves were often tainted;