Quotes About Community

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.

They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?

A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.

there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.

Grandmothers in Botswana tell their children that if you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, you must go together.

Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.

I realize i do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds. I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary,any day. I believe that having something to hope for-even if its just a better tomorrow-is the most powerful drug on this planet.

I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399)

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?

The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of sinning, it's not so that others can place blame. It's so that the person can make amends and move on.

I feel like I've been standing underneath an open window, just as a baby gets tossed out. I grab the baby, right, because who wouldn't? But then another baby gets tossed out, so I pass the baby to someone else, and I make the catch. This keeps happening. And before you know it there are a whole bunch of people who are getting really good at passing along babies, just like I'm good at catching them, but no one ever asks who the fuck is throwing the babies out the window in the first place.

I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a macaroni-and-cheese bake than any personal involvement. You hand off a serving dish and you've done your job - no need to get personally involved, and your conscience is clean. Food is the currency of aid.

Religion was supposed to be a blanket drawn up to your chin to keep you warm, a promise that when it came to the end, you wouldn't die alone - but it could just as easily leave you shivering out in the cold, if WHAT you believed became more important than the fact THAT you believed.

Hunger, she often tells me, has nothing to do with the belly and everything to do with the mind. What Mary really runs isn't a bakery, but a community.

The essence of education is not to get a certificate or job but, to be a holistically developed person who can positively impact the society.

If you have no job, help is needed.

I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.You ask me what to do about them.It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.Face that one first.

Work for purpose, be for others.

Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.

The grandeur of a profession is...above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships.

God gave you two hands one belongs to you and the other to your fellow man.

It's hard to make things right for everyone.""But if everybody helped just one person, lots of people would get helped.