Quotes About Community

We are eagles of one nest - the nest is in our soul.

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling (1 Peter 4:8-9).

Make friends not enemies, and you will always have eyes in the back of your head.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Love has a hem to her garment that reaches the very dust. It sweeps the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Love thy neighbor--and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Go often to the house of a friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends.

Marriage is the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

The purpose of life is not to accumulate but to give. The purpose of life is not to put people down but to lift people up.

God created you to make people happy, to make them feel special and loved. So before you do something for yourself think of what you could do for others.

A real parish is a wondrously beautiful web of human relationship which is given meaning by the man who is Himself the meaning of life.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

I wanna thank you for supporting me and my music and defending me from haters.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share

My gratitude to people who've picked me up and held my hand along the way is unquestionable.