Quotes About Community

Lead such a life, that, when you die, the people may mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company.

Christian ethics is not primarily an individualistic, one-on-one-with-God brand of personal holiness; rather it has to do with living the life of the Spirit in Christian community and in the world.

Over the years since I left home, I have kept thinking about the people I grew up with and about our way of life. I realize how much the bond that held us had to do with food.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone.

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of national and community life. The people must believe that they can take part.

Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.

Everyone has the right to live in a great place. More importantly, everyone has the right to contribute to making the place where they already live great.

I play video games and watch TV, but there's more to life than that. Faxing and the Internet have created a global community. The kid next door has become the kid in Latin America or Asia.

I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential. We have to create an art for liberation and for life.

The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value of people and all life is foundational.

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

Our life and our death is with our neighbor. If we gain our brother, we have gained God, but if we scandalize our brother, we have sinned against Christ.

Imagine that it's not about the self and its concerns, about 'what's in it for me,' whether that be a blessed afterlife or prosperity in this life.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood.

Choose people who lift you up.

Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.

Friend, the church finds its life as it listens to the Word of God. It finds its purpose as it lives out and displays the Word of God. The church's job is to listen and then to echo.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Record stores can't save your life. But they can give you a better one.

We need to feel the cheer and inspiration of meeting each other, we need to gain the courage and fresh life that comes from the mingling of congenial souls, of those working for the same ends.