Quotes About Community

We're all a nation that believes we're children of the same god.

I think the church needs to be much more countercultural than that and invite people into slowing down, into a "Be-still-and-know-that-I-am-God" mindset.

You do not have to be in a church to be saved, but to continue in the things of God, you must be in some type of fellowship with other Christian people.

True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.

The Internet offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God.

We must not be afraid of solidarity; rather let us make all we have and are available to God.

We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, but God did.

..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately....Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.

If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.

No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?

Though magical communities believe in the God and the Goddess - the equally balanced male and female sides of Spirit - they also believe this equality brings wholeness and creates the One.

Scripture is something God had 'let be,' and so it is at once God's creation and the creation of the dozens of people and communities and cultures who produced it.

Always the most revealing thing about the church is her idea of God.

There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.

The church was made for mission-God's mission

The point is to raise your voice and be heard to God. You really are just celebrating being in the presence of other people that believe the same things you believe.

Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in God, would you go out and kill your neighbour?" Most people will say, "No".

When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.

We want a revival to come just in our way. You never saw two revivals come just alike. We must let them come in God's way. People are ashamed to admit they need a revival.

Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge.

If you have ever said, "I didn't get anything out of worship today," you worshiped for the wrong reason. Worship isn't for you. It's for God.

Oh, honey, God don't care which church you go, long as you show up!

Charity is the cement that unites communities to God and individuals to each other so that he who contributes to the union of hearts in a community binds it indissolubly to God.

Believers may come from different cultures, countries, or customs, but we serve one God who unites us all.