Quotes About Community

Hell: A sumptuously provisioned banquet hall full of hungry people with locked-strait elbow joints who can't feed themselves because their unbendable arms won't allow it. Heaven: Everything's the same except people are feeding each other.

The noted archaeologist Richard Leakey ascribes the essence of what makes us human to the reciprocity system: "We are human because our ancestors learned to share their food and their skills in an honored network of obligation,"9

Americans who are angry and suspicious of one another will fight over the crumbs rather than join together against those who have run off with most of the pie.

What we have lost, I think, is a sense of our connectedness to each other and to our ideals—the America that John F. Kennedy asked that we contribute to.

We "bowl alone," as sociologist Robert Putnam has put it. Yet this fails to account for a monumental shift in whom we join and for what. We still join together, but now we join for services too expensive to purchase alone—child care, the schools our children attend, recreational facilities, and security...

An economy should exist for the people who inhabit it, not the other way around. The purpose of an economy is to provide everyone with opportunities to live full, happy, and productive lives.

Current patterns of economic segregation make a self-fulfilling prophecy of the claim that the poor are not like the rest of us.

In my experience, nothing good happens in Washington unless good people outside Washington become mobilized, organized, and energized to make it happen. Nothing worth changing in America will actually change unless you and others like you are committed to achieving that change.

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

Boy Scout is not merely to give you fun and adventure but that, like the backwoodsmen, explorers, and frontiersmen whom you are following, you will be fitting yourself to help your country and to be of service to other people who may be in need of help. That is what the best men are out to do.

Když se snažíme vychovat z chlapc? dobré lidi, d?láme to ?áste?n? pro dobro své zem?.

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

So the Eucharist -- in its sumptuous liturgical setting, surrounded by music, art, the word of God, and the prayer of the community -- does more than sustain the divine life in us. It delights us, as a foretaste of the heavenly banquet.

Successful evangelists are persons of the Eucharist. They are immersed in the rhythms of the Mass; they practice Eucharistic adoration; they draw the evangelized to a participation in the Body and Blood of Jesus.

Whenever communities, families, nations, churches are divided, we sniff out the diabolic.

Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.

Streets flooded. Please advise.

Our longing for community seems to be a part of the image of the One Who made us, a part of the divine image whispered into us when we were whispered into being in the first place.

Personal prayer does not dispense us from corporate prayer. The one sustains the other.

What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness, but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black.

Paris is many different things to many different people, but, for me it is simply "home".

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.