Quotes About Community

IT WOULD BE REALLY pretty easy to be virtuous, be that disciple of Jesus, if it weren't for one big problem. Those other people. Yeah. Them.

For far too long Jesus has been the wedge that drives Christians and Jews apart. I suggest that we can also see him as a bridge between us.

When church becomes a club, parables become pedestrian.

Jeremiah and Jesus indicted people then, and now. The ancient Temple, and the present-day church, should be places where people not only find community, welcome the stranger, and repent of their sins. They should be places where people promise to live a godly life, and then keep their promises.

Inheriting the earth, for the psalm and for the Gospel, requires being humble, not in the sense of lowly, but in the sense of being able to listen to others, to share resources, to prioritize community rather than authority, to serve rather than to be served.

Our role as historians is to ask, "What would these stories have conveyed to the people who first heard them?" Our role as readers is also to ask, "What do these stories mean to me, and what have they meant to my community and to my tradition over time and across the globe?

The swineherds ran off, and on going into the town, they told the whole story about what had happened to the demoniacs. 34 Then the whole town came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they begged him to leave their neighborhood.

Jesus of Nazareth dressed like a Jew, prayed like a Jew (and most likely in Aramaic), instructed other Jews on how best to live according to the commandments given by God to Moses, taught like a Jew, argued like a Jew with other Jews, and died like thousands of other Jews on a Roman cross. To

More, the name Bethlehem literally means "house of bread.

Shepherds are no more and no less ritually impure than anyone else.

Salvation means that there is respite from whatever oppresses in the community that hears, and lives, this Gospel.

Luke tells us: pay attention to earthly matters, neighbors and relatives, shepherds, and who else might be at the inn.

In a single line, Luke tells us that Jesus is, like John, fully a member of the Jewish people, not just by birth, but also in the body.

Les réseaux sociaux sont devenus un pâturage gratuit pour le troupeau

We need the vaccine against the rent virus

In what neighborhood—town or city, rural area or village in the country—could I raise a brown boy and believe that no harm could ever come to him, where

Se es de donde se quiere ser, y se pertenece a quienes se desea pertenecer... Lo mismo al revés.

Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.

Sharing will enrich everyone with more knowledge.

All human beings are my neighbors. We share the same planet. Ana Monnar

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

The majestic equality of the law forbids rich and poor alike from pissing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread.

all ought to be common among friends.

Creíase bienquisto entre los congregados habituales de Valcombe, y no erraba del todo al suponerlo.