Quotes About Community

Yo atravesé el duelo gracias a ellos y descubrí que los amigos nunca se apenan del todo en tu desgracia, porque les ofrece la más hermosa oportunidad para demostrarte cuánto les importas, cuánto se preocupan por ti, cuán generosa es su disposición.

Next, the bystanders saw something large and dark fall from one of the windows. "Someone's in there, all right," said a voice in the crowd. "He's trying to save his best cloth." When the next bundle began falling, the onlookers realized that it was a human being.

Lower East Side socialism favored the worker over the boss and the group over the individual.

The Kingdom of God includes everyone, that is everyone to the degree that they bring forth the fruits of it.  It excludes nobody but those who exclude themselves by not bringing forth any fruits."* So the Kingdom of God cannot be identified with any earthly nation whether it be the Jews, the Romans, the British or the Americans. Paul told us in Galatians 3:28-29:

Though I am not rich, I am not absolutely poor. . . . I am working now less for myself than for those around me. —FREDERICK DOUGLASS, MAY 6, 1868

The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind.

The planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind.

home was where the people someone cared about lived.

Round these parts, we do stupid in a whole 'nother way. I can't quite decide whether our people's motto should be 'Hey, y'all! Watch this!' or 'Somebody hold mah beer!

What's conquered by the sword is owned only so long as the sword stays sharp. What's brought together in amity, in recognition of common needs and purpose—of common enemies—has the strength to stand even after swords are no longer required.

some of us live in big cities so we can be alone, so we can avoid ourselves, and yet by living within massive populations we can have help or love within reach if necessary.

Here they were, a group as diverse as one could possibly bring together. Jew, Samaritan, Roman, Greek – all united because of one who had come from God and returned to God only a few short years ago. Surely here was living proof that the eternal truths brought to life during Jesus' time on earth meant transformation was not only possible, it was real.

We cherish individual liberty and diversity, but we also see the value in common pursuits.

I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless.

None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

Y'all take care of yourself now... strange and interesting friends are hard to find.

Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone invents his own truth, there is no community, only factions. Without community, there can be no consensus to resist the greedy, the envious, the power-mad narcissists who seize control and turn the institutions of civilization into a series of doom machines.

Riots come and go, wars come and go, but under the tumult, day after day, century after century, millions of people are doing nice things for one another, making sacrifices, mostly small things, but it's all those little kindnesses that hold civilization together, all those people who live quiet lives and never make the news.

I am no good alone. I need bonds, vows real if unspoken, shared laughter, and people who depend on me as I depend on them.

To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity. I stopped attending Mass at Our Lady of Immaculate Conception and went instead to Our Lady of Angels. I no longer lingered after Friday prayer among my brethren. I went to temple at crowded times when the Brahmins were too distracted to come between God and me.

Michel Cukiermann, my son-in-law: heir of suffering, pillar of the community, contemporary stand-in for the sons of Abraham, disciple of Moses.

Greet everyone warmly, and greet them first. Do not ignore others or pretend that you do not see them. The rabbis teach: Receive everyone warmly and with joy. (Avot 1:15, 3:16) Always be first in greeting all men with the blessing of peace. (Avot 4:22)

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Okay you guys, pair up in threes!