Quotes About Community

I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.

Dear George, remember no man is a failure who has friends.

Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.

We live out our call most fully when we are a community of faith with arms wrapped about a community of pain.

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.

A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.

What the church most needs is not heroes of faith, but faithful followers of Jesus.

I don't have faith in the Internet, I have faith in people connected through the Internet.

I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.

The Church is a perpetual construction site.

To keep the faith, run with the right crowd.

The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.

Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.

Let us listen to what all the faithful say, because in every one of them the Spirit of God breathes.

Those who do not have faith in others will not be able to stand on their own.

Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Faith in Jesus must be personal but it cannot be private.

Cities are erected on spiritual columns. Like giant mirrors, they reflect the hearts of their residents. If those hearts darken and lose faith, cities will lose their glamour.

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.

So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.

The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.

I'm speaking of the ability of people of faith to freely express their beliefs in the public square.

People are always going to need physicality; they're going to want to meet other people even more. I've got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won't forget about them.