Quotes About Community

You cannot have a society of angels except in heaven

One doesn't enter groups of people simply because one wants or needs to. One has an infinite number of opportunities that occur for no particular reason. Sometimes you feel a sudden unexpected pleasure at being where you find yourself.

Yoshino says, "Gays should not rest now but move forward by looking back.

The realities of the lives of many LGBT people, from grappling with HIV to the presence of anti-LGBT violence, are unconsciously covered up as the victory narrative consumes us and as we allow it to happen at our own peril.

That's a lot of what the ghetto is, a reflection of poor self esteem

In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.

He knew a few people there. And he was afraid that this

Exercise your heart by lifting other people up!

Exercise your heart by lifting someone else up!" ~Michelle Cole

Exercise your heart by lifting other people up!" ~Michelle Cole

Her preaching theme, indeed, her modus operandi, might have been Include all!—she was always dragging some person she'd just met to our lunches and meetings and events—but how abruptly and thoroughly she'd excluded me.

None of the young people knows how to be part of a committee," Charlotte said. "They're basically unchurched.

When I started at my first church," Tom went on, "I was on fire with everything I wanted to do. I moved in, opened my office door, and one by one each staff person and maybe half the members came in and complained about everyone else. I called my mentor and said, 'I can't take it! I have ideas! I want to get to work, not be a wailing wall!' And he said, 'This is your work. Listening to people. Managing people.

The AUUCC, I thought, might do well with a cheerful witch.

One great thing about church friends: they buy and read your books.

What I'd like to know"—Tom set down his eggroll and drew himself up—"is why every time I make a friend in the congregation, they stop coming to church?" The anguish in his voice surprised me. "That is weird," I said. Apparently, I was caught in yet another pattern larger than myself.

The church will be fine," said Tom. "The church is fine." "Sparlo always said, 'Ministers come and go but the church endures.

Had I first come to the AUUCC when Tom was the senior minister, I might have cathected with him as profoundly as I had with Sparlo—and there were many people at the AUUCC who had; they adored Tom and came to church to hear him, and might never attach as ardently to any other minister. Like baby ducks, we were imprinted by the one we knew first.

Did you ever have Jennie in RE? Very bright, but so willful. She attracted a little band of kids who'd do anything she told them to." "I just remember that clash with Sparlo during her coming-of-age ceremony. What did she call him? A patriarchal oppressor?" "Racist homophobe was in there somewhere.

Together, you form a church in miniature and, as such, you'll choose the next minister for us all. Also, every one of you wrote the same thing in your letters. Before we leave tonight, let's see if you can figure out what it was." "Time to burn?" said Belinda. "Out of our minds?" said Adrian.

There's something to be said for geographic affinity, all right.

That's pretty much why I'm a UU, Curtis. Because our ministers can be gay, trans, Buddhist, atheist, any race, or same-sex adoptive parents with mixed-race families. You name it. That's the future. Everybody's in." "Here's to the future," said Adrian. We all lifted our water glasses in a toast.

I think there are many church members and churches in general that spend too much time policing the behavior of others than to pray for them that God helps them to make the changes they need to in their lives.