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Quotes About Community

People are my religion/Because I believe in them.
~ Andrew Jackson
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
~ Joseph de Maistre
We have to assess: Are we making disciples along the way as we draw people to our churches?
~ Ed Stetzer
It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.
~ Dorothy Day
I wanted to do something for the minority Muslims living in the West, especially in the UK, to bring up their morale a bit. They need to be proud of their religion
~ Sami Yusuf
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christians and non-Christians have something in common. Were both uptight about evangelism.
~ Rebecca Pippert
I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
~ Gene Robinson
A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared spirituality.
~ Agnivesh
We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.
~ Francis Chan
You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
~ Natalie Portman
Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him.
~ James MacDonald
Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
~ Black Elk
Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.
~ John Wesley
Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.
~ Rene Dubos
Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.
~ Riane Eisler
I feel that religion can be used as a tool to guide your life and help you connect with other people.
~ Zach Anner
The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.
~ Roger Scruton
Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it.
~ John Scalzi
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
~ Edward Bond
Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.
~ Austin Farrer
Religion is civilization, the highest.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.
~ A. Whitney Brown