Quotes About Community

He came to see that marriage was not an institution, not even an idea, but a rational social process whose function was to raise children properly.

The future belongs to crowds.

Porque cualquiera que hiciere la voluntad de mi padre, que está en los cielos, ese es mi hermano, y mi hermana, y mi madre. 13

47 Entonces dijo Pedro: ¿Quién puede negar el agua del bautismo a los que, como nosotros, han recibido también al Espíritu Santo? 48 Así que mandó bautizarlos en nombre y con el bautismo de nuestro Señor Jesucristo; y le suplicaron que se detuviese con ellos algunos días como lo hizo. 11

four key principles: (1) taking the initiative to reach out to others; (2) showing genuine interest in people; (3) treating others with respect and kindness; and (4) valuing others and yourself as unique individuals who have much to share and offer one another.

The "right place" could be a social event, your place of worship, a political gathering, or even an adult education class. When you meet someone in a place where you both enjoy the activities, you already have something in common and can begin developing a friendship.

Freudengässlein, or Lane of Joy.

The Great War (I) had taught everyone an important lesson: survival in the face of a common enemy depended on working together. That meant resolving differences peacefully...

I have often noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race.

That's perhaps the biggest miracle: People prayed and God honored their prayers. As

couldn't say it, but I believed then-and still do-that I survived only because a number of people wanted me to. They were relentless, passionate, and desperate, and they believed God would hear them. People prayed for me who had never seriously prayed before; some who hadn't uttered a word of petition in years cried out to God to spare me. My experience brought people to their knees, and many of them had changed in the process of praying for me to live.

In the Sawi universe, not only man, but all things are communicating.

Believers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you (Koran 9:123).

Harry is a black man, and I'm a white man. We obviously come from different backgrounds, but we stand together on this stage as brothers. And as a brother, I must say these race riots are terrible. It's awful how stores are being looted. The burning, the rioting, the stealing. But if, God forbid, it does happen again—and I pray it doesn't—all I can say is, 'Harry, I could use a couch and a couple of end tables.

There are 5,000 great people for every jerk on Usenet. But that still is a lot of jerks. Proceed with caution and eyes wide open.

The strip runs forever along the Gulf Coast, and it makes you wonder why, on the night of Katrina, the Holy Comforter didn't take the opportunity to make a more comprehensive town-planning statement.

We will go to heaven or we will go to hell, but we will go together.

You call the wolf, you get the pack.

We are all cripples, Keller thinks, limping together through this crippled world. It's what we owe to each other. Chuy goes inside. Keller sits outside on a bench and waits. The words of the psalm come back to him— "Be still and know that I am God." There is nothing to do but be still.

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees.

We are all cripples, Keller thinks, limping together through this crippled world. It's what we owe to each other.

A border is something that divides us but also unites us; there can be no real wall, just as there is no wall that divides the human soul between its best impulses and its worst.

The lost, the lonely, the bicultural misfits with a foot in two worlds and a place in neither.

You go in there to be Irish, Danny thinks, as if you're not already, as if you can get away from it anywhere anyway.