Quotes About Community

Droom: dat de hele mensheid bij elkaar komt, in een soort honderdduizendvoudig Feyenoord-stadion, en gezamenlijk begint te huilen van 'zie ons hier zitten'.

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

They founded no mission society, organized no city mission, wrote no books on "dynamic evangelism." Instead, they celebrated the Sacrament and prayed continually. "And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved" (2:47).

where there is a people which no longer has a future, there the church still has a future, because the future of the church is the future of Jesus Christ.

Still, no matter in what part of the country the ladies happened to dwell, the clique invariably kept to itself in an impenetrable circle.

privacy requires a public façade

The way law stays alive is by remaining in touch with social contracts pieced together among real people on the ground.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.

Everyone eats his words by himself although we're all eating together. There's no thought for the hunger of others, you can't hunger together. Cabbage soup was our main food, but it mainly took the meat from our bones and the sanity from our minds. The hunger angel ran around in hysterics. He lost all proportion, growing more in a single day than grass in an entire summer or snow in an entire winter.

Windisch piensa: "el final está aquí". Desde que se propuso emigrar ve el final en todos los rincones del pueblo. Y el tiempo detenido para los que quieren quedarse.

Better to be at home in room and garden with ugly people than belong to strangers.

The Romanian farmers eat and drink too much because they have too little, said Liviu, and they talk too little because they know too much. And they don't trust strangers don't have any gold teeth. Strangers here are very much alone, said Liviu.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Often a whole community together suffers in consequence of a bad man who does wrong and contrives evil

If anything, which ought not to happen, happens in your neighborhood, neighbors come as they are to help; relatives dress first.

Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.

Somebody will look after things. It's none of your business. Forget about it. Let other people do the worrying.

From the towns all Inns have been driven: from the villages most.... Change your hearts or you will lose your Inns and you will deserve to have lost them. But when you have lost your Inns drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There's always laughter and good red wine. At least I've always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!