Quotes About Community

We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.

But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference. We were out to seek, to discover, to chase, to learn, to find as many different kinds of birds as possible — and, in friendly competition, to try to find more of them than the next birder. We became a community of birders, with the complications that human societies always have; and although it was the birds that had brought us together, our story became a human story after all.

Careful readers will note that the guy who "won" was hardly a shining example of birding ethics. What kind of person would pay thousands of dollars for flights and car rentals to chase a rare bird and then try to avoid paying a couple of bucks to get into a state park? Real birders carry their share, do their part, try to support the resource that supports birding.

The prayer for our bread includes the neighbors. It is our Father and our bread.

We must move beyond an anemic view of our faith as something only personal and private, with no public dimension, and instead see it as the source of power that can change the world.

Women must commit to use our power-to on our own behalf so we can translate it into the power to help others and ourselves.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.

To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.

Heart power is better than horsepower.

We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.

Real results will emerge when we realize the power of combined individual actions and voices to effect change.

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.

Networking is an enrichment program, not an entitlement program.

I think that the only thing that can bring us into a place of fullness is being out in the land with other. Then we remember where the source of our power lies.

The most incredible gift you can give someone in a video is to help them feel less alone... The things that make us feel the most alone, have the greatest power to connect us

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people.

Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.

I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, economics and creative genius.

Change is not about putting a different kind of people in power but a different kind of power in people.

Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

For when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart; and as I gave way unto it I found the evil weakening in me and the good raised up

I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.

Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.