Quotes About Community

Christianity, like most religious traditions of any vintage, is inherently conservative.

There are millions of LGBTQ Christians.

certainly will be relevant to our witness to the state. But the fundamental need right now for Christians is to think seriously about whether the Church's own marginalized sexual minorities will be treated, unequivocally, as sisters and brothers in Christ.

other ways of knowing—indeed, other ways of hearing God address us. These include tradition, science, reason, experience, intuition, community, and relationships. The power of a narrow evangelical biblicism must be broken, but you can't replace something with nothing.

The church is the community of people who stand in covenant relationship with God through Jesus Christ and seek to fulfill his kingdom mission.

A company has a responsibility beyond making a profit for stockholders; it has a responsibility to recognize the dignity of its employees as human beings, to the well-being of its customers, and to the community at large.

Some bacteria are more or less permanent residents; they form long-lasting colonies.

At the bottom of all the political pontificating is a simple question: Will we be the city upon the hill or a nation of tribalistic assholes?

Stand on the shoulders of others, not their throats, heads, and backs.

What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.

For metaphor, we may suggest, is not simply a matter of what appears on the printed page or in, for example, the work of visual art; it is rather the bodying-forth [stet] of sets of correspondences of which, in some sense, we have all, in specific interpretative communities, been aware in what we might define as a liminal way, hovering somewhere around the threshold of articulation.

It comes and it goes. But epidemiologists have recognized that, with measles virus, as with other pathogens, there's a critical minimum size of the host population, below which it can't persist indefinitely as an endemic, circulating infection. This is known as the critical community size (CCS), an important parameter in disease dynamics.

His report described a typical beka initiation, complete with slaughtered sheep and chickens, the neck of a tortoise (because it resembles a penis), and "virgin lasses" in attendance through a long prelude that culminates at four in the morning.

People and gorillas, horses and duikers and pigs, monkeys and chimps and bats and viruses: We're all in this together.

Most churches are filled with people who love Jesus and are involved in every way that they feel capable. In reality, they are waiting for someone to invest in them for gospel work.

In the introduction, Amy Butler the senior minister at Riverside and a friend of Clinton's, referred to the Trump Administration as a source of anguish and confusion, and everyone nodded solemly'.

We are all connected in ways we cannot even begin to fathom. Our lives unfold through each other and within each other. What one suffers, we all feel. What one does changes others forever.

We are not separate, and I want you to know that. We are all part of one thing, and nothing good has ever passed or ever can pass away. There is no way out, but there is a way in, and when one person feels lonely like a ghost it touches us all.

Instead, he defined individualism as the freedom to achieve and the obligation to return something of value to the community that had nurtured and sustained him. I believe this was both the source and object of his philanthropy. As

There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the peace of their self-content; There are souls, like stars, that dwell apart In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran; But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man. —Samuel Walter Foss

They're an amazing group, as enthusiastic as any people I have ever met. Even Hike seems to perk up when they're around. They're in their eighties; I hope I'm that active when I'm in my fifties.

in California everyone wants to know what kind of car you drive. In the South it's which church you attend. And here it's what kind of dog you have.

But if I've learned one thing during our descent into dog rescue lunacy, it's that dogs bridge gaps between people. they smooth over the human condition, and they provide an extraordinarily valuable function. They take people of all political persuasions, religious faiths, and geographical locations and represent something that everyone can love.

God's desire today is for worship that is centered more on relationship than liturgy.