Quotes About Community

that feeling of being alone and together at the same time.

It was nothing short of belonging, a feeling that wasn't particularly profound or intense

He'd spent his life with orphans, he understood their special plight, so he didn't hate them like most people did. He just wasn't one of them.

Let this story be an inspiration when dealing with the weak-minded who share your communal housing blocks and the selfish who use all the soap in your group bathing wells. Know that change is achievable and that happy endings do come, for this story promises to have the happiest ending you will ever hear

the inmates keep their distance and do what inmates always seem to do: affirm and reassure, make the future seem doable.

A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.

It is, of course, Wilde's point that socialism interferes with sociability.

The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko:

White Louisianians must have been relieved when the mayor banned free men of color from teaching the martial arts to their brethren. In New Orleans, it seems, good fencers did not make good neighbors—especially when they were colored.

We only have to go back a few dozen centuries to see that most of the 7 billion of us alive today are descended from a tiny handful of people, the population of a village.

According to traditional paleoanthropology based on bones, by the time Homo sapiens reached Europe, probably around 60,000 years ago, the Neanderthals were already there and well established, albeit in small communities.

Go back to where you come from," someone told me on Twitter last year, and I did indeed drive up the highway to Ipswich to visit my folks for the weekend.

SNL is a home. You've got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it's a great time.

Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.

De la paleta de conceptos que estudia la filosofía política, este libro analiza cinco: la justicia social, la libertad, la igualdad, la comunidad y la democracia.

Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.

We are not soul freelancers, but beings created to dance in the arms of the Trinity.

Studying Scripture can equip, guide and reveal how to live in life-giving ways that deepen our friendship with God and others.

24If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, do not act toward them as a creditor; exact no interest from them.

9When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap all the way to the edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest. 10You shall not pick your vineyard bare, or gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger:

33When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not wrong him. 34The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt:

The historical background of this dispute could be the 5th c. bce debate over whether or not the Transjordanians, headed by Tobiah, were a part of the community centered in Jerusalem (Neh. 2.10, 19, 20; 13.1–9). Alternately, the Transjordan community may represent all those who live outside of Israel, and the story aims to teach that in order for them to retain their identity and ties with Israel they must not conduct sacrificial practices elsewhere,

35If your kinsman, being in straits, comes under your authority, and you hold him as though a resident alien, let him live by your side: 36do not exact from him advance or accrued interest,* but fear your God. Let him live by your side as your kinsman. 37Do not lend him your money at advance interest, or give him your food at accrued interest.

2No one whose testes are crushed or whose member is cut off shall be admitted into the congregation of the Lord. 3No one misbegotten* shall be admitted into the congregation of the Lord; none of his descendants, even in the tenth generation, shall be admitted into the congregation of the Lord.