Quotes About Community

The literary text seems like "a fortified medieval town –foreigners and outsiders are repelled, or allowed in only after rigorous checks, but within all is bustling life; exchange, mutual interdependence and influence are the rule.

In the end, the majority of the group voted to let the wizard live.

Both had agreed that the British 'bobby' was able to police more effectively precisely because he was known to be unarmed. The point was for policing to be, and to be seen to be, by consent, not compulsion

I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!

In a place like Paris, the air is so thick with dreams they clog the streets and take all the good tables at the cafés. Poets and writers, models and designers, painters and sculptors, actors and directors, lovers and escapists, they flock to the City of Lights. That night at Polly's, the table spilled over with the rapture of pilgrims who have found their temple. That night, among new friends and safe at Shakespeare and Company, I felt it too. Hope is a most beautiful drug.

In the end, yes, it is a famous bookstore and, yes, it is of no small literary importance. But more than anything, Shakespeare and Company is a refuge, like the church across the river. A place where the owner allows everyone to take what they need and give what they can.

The new science takes us from a colonial vision of nature as an enemy to pillage and enslave, to a new vision of nature as a community to nurture. The right to exploit, harness, and own nature in the form of property is tempered by the obligation to steward nature and treat it with dignity and respect. The utility value of nature is slowly giving way to the intrinsic value of nature.

Don't worry. These cowboys are all in line. Nice, law-abiding batch here, only want to help you reach your dreams. They're nothing like that last group who rolled through town with branding irons and rape-trusses and shotguns. These are the good guys.

Loneliness is a hell of a drug. A week prior I'd misted up when a grocery clerk told me, "Take care.

I've learned that depending on others isn't a sign of individual weakness, but of communal strength.

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

You obviously haven't lived in D.C. very long if you think two and a half minutes is too soon to talk politics.

One thing I've found that eases the pain," Cody said, 'is to remember that we are all connected, to those we know and those we don't know.

My fellow Americans, good evening. My name is Becca Goldman and I weep with all of you." I texted one word to Megan, 'Gag' She wrote back: 'My name is Becca Goldman, and I sleep with all of you

Fifty years ago in his novel Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut playfully (but prophetically) called these "connections" a "granfalloon"—a group of people who choose, or claim to have, a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is actually meaningless. The author offered two examples, Daughters of the American Revolution and the General Electric Company; if Vonnegut wrote the novel today, the examples could just as easily be Facebook or Twitter.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

We need to ask ourselves, "In what way do others see salvation dwelling in my house?

Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.

A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.

It is clear from our Lord's prayer that He does not intend for us to withdraw from contact with the world of non-Christians (John 17:15). Instead, He said we are to be 'the salt of the earth' and 'the light of the world' (Matthew 5:13-14).

This is fellowship: sharing with one another what God is teaching through the Scriptures, and this is an important part of true community.

It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.

Biblical community, then, incorporates this idea of an active partnership in the promotion of the gospel and the building up of believers.