Quotes About Community

What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.

Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.

I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.

I looked around at us all: me in my nightgown, Kiyo bare-chested, Dorian in his extravagant robes, and Tim in his Native getup. God, I muttered, standing up, we all look like the village people.

What we need to do from God's perspective is that we need to reach out and understand each other.

I'm convinced, more than ever, that man finds liberation only when he binds himself to God and commits himself to his fellow man.

God designed in different faiths adored by different human communities are all limbs of the One God that really is.

With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting the church as a perfect thing.

I wonder why no one called the police about the rocket launcher? God knows my neighbors usually report it if I so much as fart in my backyard. (Bubba)

We need to be accountable to God's family. Once we start living in a way that is people-friendly to all of God's family, we will also be environment-friendly.

In sharing how God is changing our lives, we find the lives of others changed as well.

As I look back now, I really feel like God has called me not just to speak into the lives of believers but, even broader than that, to speak into the lives of people that are outside of the Church.

And let me tell you 'Kingdom of God' language is really big in the emerging church.

In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.

It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.

Your problems are not just your problems. Ultimately, they belong to the church body that God has placed you in.

If you can't make freinds with God, make freinds with someone is friends and maybe you'll get invited to the party.

We need to build a Biblical friendship, a friendship established on the principles of God's Word.

God is the nest we build together.

I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.

The family is a creation of God. The way to strengthen the nation is to strengthen the homes of the people.

The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm sure that that number increases with Black people.

The most important thing I've come to believe in is that people with mental handicaps have a unique mission to bring God's blessing to the World.

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.