Quotes About Community

Hokkaido is cold so soup is very important to us. It gives us warmth and cheers us up. I want to be someone who provides that, too.

The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

Honestly, I never thought I'd actually be playing a teen lesbian. I didn't think it was going to go this far. But I'm glad that it did, because there have been a lot of fans who have expressed that they've been going through similar situations in their lives.

Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

If we knew how often the obedience of others is affected by our own, and how often our stepping forth soon brings forth a whole platton of helpers, and how often our speaking forth soon creates a chorus - we would be even more ashamed of our slackess and our silence.

As parenting declines, the need for policing increases. There will always be a shortage of police if there is a shortage of effective parents! Likewise, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

Most omissions occur because we fail to get outside ourselves. We are so busy checking on our own temperatures that we do not notice the burning fevers of others even when we could offer them some of the needed remedies, such as encouragement, kindness, and commendation. The hands that hang down and most need to be lifted up belong to those too discouraged even to reach out anymore.

A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble in the street for peaceful purposes. Or, more simply, demonstrating the civil right of the community to exist.

I have come to understand church as this: the presence of Jesus among His people called out as a spiritual family to pursue His mission on this planet.

Attendance on Sundays does not transform lives; Jesus within their hearts is what changes people.

Instead of bringing people to church so that we can then bring them to Christ, let's bring Christ to people where they live.

We have raised the bar so high on how church is done that few believe they could ever do it themselves. The dark side of this endeavor is that we have lowered the bar of what is means to be a Christian, such that simply showing up to the weekly one-hour event with some regularity and a checkbook is all it takes.

If you want to win this world to Christ, you are going to have to sit in the smoking section. That is where lost people are found, and if you make them put their cigarette out to hear the message they will be thinking about only one thing: "When can I get another cigarette?

church has become a religious event that takes place once a week, rather than a spiritual family on a mission together.

The church is at its best in two's or three's-not in two or three hundreds or two or three thousands. "Where two or three are gathered together, there am I in the midst of them.

One of our church networks has as its purpose statement "To have a church within walking distance of every person living in Las Vegas.

Another claims, "Every Christian is a church planter, every home is a church, and every church building is a training center.

You are more than a number, a like or a vote. You are a voice. You are part of an authentic collective that is heard, honored and amplified to artists, their representation, managers, investors and record label,

Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.

Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.

Libraries are our friends.