Quotes About Community

I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.

If we are in a supermarket when someone drops a bag of groceries on the floor and we don't help that person pick things up, what difference does it make how deeply we know we're a being of God?.

God has lots of children in the church today; I'm honestly not sure He has many friends.

It's hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God's will. It's hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you're not supposed to have emptiness.

With the Synod Assembly, therefore, I heartily recommend to the Church's pastors and to the People of God the practice of Eucharistic Adoration, both individually and in community

At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable.

The cry of a baby is God's voice: never drive them away from the church!

The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.

May we learn to say "thank you" to God and to one another. We teach children to do it, and then we forget to do it ourselves!

God's idea of redemption is community-shaped.

I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.

God created us to thrive on encouragement from others

People of faith feel responsible for God's world.

If we don't think about God, everything ends up being about 'me' and my own comfort.

Jesus spoke in such a way that the people loved the things of God. That's why they followed him.

Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate.

God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull.

God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help.

When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close.

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again.

I continue to be a pastor who speaks to the people of God about the things of God.

The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.