Quotes About Community

It has been fully shown that the States which thus became and continued to be "united," whatever form their union assumed, acted and continued to act as distinct and sovereign political communities. The monstrous fiction that they acted as one people "in their aggregate capacity" has not an atom of fact to serve as a basis. To go back to the very beginning, the British colonies never constituted one people.

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

In the Scriptures, a comrnu- nity is a group of people, living under God's rule, who are learning how to love God and love one another.

Working as a team: No one effectively does the work of teaching challenging students alone for very long. Teachers and professional staff must have multiple venues to vent, ask for advice, brainstorm strategies, and celebrate successes.

Listening is a fundamental way to invite a child into the community. It is commonly said that listening is the cheapest concession you can make. In schools, adults listen, but mostly for the answers to our academic questions. We listen to determine what is right and wrong. We listen for opportunities to lecture.

Where there is no gospel, there is no church!

Sin embargo, la iglesia primitiva tenía un enfoque mucho más simple, centrándose en la predicación de la Palabra, comunión y la oración (Hechos 2:42). Sin importar cuán poco atractivo eso pueda sonar a los oídos modernos, esto es lo que la iglesia primitiva buscó hacer.

En otras palabras, donde la Palabra está ausente allí no está la iglesia verdadera ni tampoco la verdadera adoración.

According to 1 Corinthians 14:26-33, a worship service is not a free for all where individual Christians are free to do as they will.

God calls His people to be active and faithful members of a local church. Going to church is not to be squeezed into the Christian's weekly schedule, but rather it is to be the principle activity and focal point of the Christian life. Entertainment, hobbies, work, and sometimes even family are secondary to the worship of God in the assembly of the saints. In other words, Christians are to rotate their schedules around the life of the church.

la idea de que un cristiano pueda operar y agradar a Dios apartado del resto del cuerpo de Cristo no solo es un concepto erróneo y orgulloso, sino una imposibilidad.

No sólo la vida de la iglesia es un medio de santificación debido a que la Palabra de Dios es continuamente predicada y aplicada a la vida de los miembros, sino también porque la iglesia es un medio de rendición de cuentas y protección.

Having a secret is isolating." Try, as much as possible, not to hide your flaws or perceived differences.

As we enter the third millennium, our human community is rent by war, increasing distrust, and the loss of a sense of our common nature and past. We seem to be more tempted than ever to define ourselves in opposition to the Other and more threatened than ever by a paradigm, or worldview, that separates rather than unites us.

Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say "We have done this ourselves." —Lao-Tsu, founder of Daoism

Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor.

even in our most intense worship, we should not forget that our relationship to god is tied to our relationship with others.

You don't inspire people by telling them they're wrong. You need to show them something extraordinary so they long to be part of it.

givers were not only among the most successful individuals

weight gain was dependent on the weight gains of others with whom that person was socially tied.

Jesus said in His most remarkable sermon ever: "For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?" (Matthew 5:46-47) I make an appeal for us to reach beyond our own contentment, to move out of our own comfort and companion zones, to reach those who may not always be so easy to reach. If we do less, what distinguishes us from the biblical publican?

I may not be my brothers keeper, but I am my brother's brother.

could become occasionally tyrannical, and that democratic liberty would falter if citizens ceased to be engaged. But he also had faith that a virtuous and engaged citizenry—grounded in small communities—could, through deliberation, achieve a good in common that they could not know alone.

Apple is a team sport.