Quotes About Community

The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.

The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds.

Many overlook the fact that Jesus was homeless. He did not only teach the poor; He lived among them.

Believers may come from different cultures, countries, or customs, but we serve one God who unites us all.

In sharing how God is changing our lives, we find the lives of others changed as well.

Church wasn't designed by an architect (Technically, Jesus was a carpenter.). So why do we think of churches as buildings instead of groups of people who love Jesus?

If I came to your town and asked any person on the street, "Which church should I go to if I want to get involved in helping the poor or homeless in this community?" would your church be the first one mentioned? Make this identity your goal.

The poor are not a problem but rather an opportunity to show unconditional love.

Church may be primarily for believers, but the gospel is for all people.

As we work together as a team, God grows our dreams into something greater than we can accomplish alone.

Treat people like family because they are.

We are called both to live pure lives and to take the good news to those in greatest need.

Change the world today. Start with the next person you meet.

Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously.

We may not have the ability to change all of the world's wrongs, but we can make a difference where we are.

There are those who wake up each morning to conquer the day, and then there are those of us who wake up only because we have to. We live in the shadow of every neighborhood. We own little corner stores, live in run-down apartments that get too little light, and walk the same streets day after day. We spend our afternoons gazing lazily out of windows. Somnambulists, all of us. Someone else said it better: we wake to sleep and sleep to wake.

I remember another aphorism of my father's, one that he used to say whenever we passed someone pissing openly in the street: add color to life when you can.

As far as I could tell, no one had noticed us. I thought this was what it felt like to be invisible, but when I subtracted Isaac I realized that, until he came along, this was how I had always felt. Not invisible, but a natural part of the background, entitled to all the privileges that came with ownership.

They stared at me, at Isaac, and then at the floor rather than at each other, as if they had long since come to terms with the fact that on any given evening men could burst into their house and do something terrible to them. There's no honest measure for the toll that sort of knowledge takes, whether the scale is the breadth of a single room or an entire city.

It is preferable that the wise man should set up his residence there where the crowd of imbeciles and fools it is the largest

It has been well and truly said that in the exoteric church the ceremony is performed by one person for the benefit of the congregation; but in the Lodge the ceremony is performed by the congregation for the benefit of one person.

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

Brazil is where I belong, the place that feels like home. They love their family, their country and God, and are not afraid to let anybody know it.