Quotes About Community

One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church.

Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.

The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with the pearls of intellectualism, nor glamorous with the silks of philosophy; neither is she enchanting with the tiara of psychology.

For this sin-hungry age we need a prayer-hungry Church.

The sweet hour of prayer as a mid-week breather in the church has been reduced to a sweet twenty minutes of prayer.

At the table, where food and stories are passed from one person to another and one generation to another, is where each of us learns who we are, where we come from, what we can be, to whom we belong, and to what we are called.

Christians have become passive spectators in worship rather than active participants. By and large, we come to church to "watch the show" rather than to engage and participate.

To come to the table is to learn to be our real selves—not some construct conceived by someone else, but who God made us to be.

Anyone who doesn't need company is either greater than a man, and is a God, or lesser than a man, and is a beast.17 —Aristotle, as quoted by Saint Thomas Aquinas

For Jesus the home is not what defines the table; the table is what defines the home.

Che popolo», pensò con un disprezzo venato di gelosia: e che in qualunque posto del mondo, là dove l'orlo di una gonna saliva di qualche centimetro sul ginocchio, nel raggio di trenta metri c'era sicuramente un siciliano, almeno uno, a spiare il fenomeno.

Come tutti i siciliani "buoni", come tutti i siciliani migliori, Majorana non era portato a far gruppo, a stabilire solidarietà e a stabilirvisi (sono i siciliani peggiori quelli che hanno il genio del gruppo, della cosca).

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

No sheep may leave the flock," he said to anyone who would listen, "unless he comes back again.

They can herd you only because you can't herd yourselves. Forget the flock. Forget the dogs. Herd yourselves.

Justice!" bleated Othello. "Justice!" bleated the other sheep. And so it was decided that George Glenn's sheep themselves would solve the wicked murder of their shepherd.

The group was led by a very thin man whom the sheep didn't know. They looked hard at him. The leader of the flock is always important.

Imagine you're living in a flock, and one day you find out that the others aren't sheep at all -- they're wolves.

Mi estómago era el lugar donde se asentaba la sociedad, pero también el punto por donde me unía con todos los elementos de la tierra.

Listen to positive music, watch positive videos or movies, hang out with positive, upbeat people. The last thing a blue mood need is more blues. Don't be volunteer victim; be a fighter.

I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'

Backstabbing occurs when you share a confidence with someone at church only to learn later that the person has told your story on the prayer chain.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. Samuel Pepys

Dickens believed that a reasonable capitalistic society could be made to recognize its responsibility to all its citizens, and that it was the duty of those most fortunate to share a portion of their gain with those whose grasp had slipped while pulling at their bootstraps.