Quotes About Community

Ideally, a good pastor wants to empower a congregation to the point where they don't need him. You want everyone to leave feeling better.

During my school days, I was the darling of the pastor in my church.

Everyone needs a safe place in life, and pastors can be people's safe place.

The thing that warms my heart is people. I have just met so many kind folks that want to just pat you on the back and say, 'We love you.'

My grandparents, Jim and Pat Moore, were an incredible couple. They drove me to the community theater, where I did plays as a kid.

A lot of the Jews I met in Israel, almost all of them are secular. They get turned off by their religion, in the same way that Americans get turned off Christianity by people like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robinson.

I could grow my own patch, make some apple pies and start selling them at the local country fair.

I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.

I think all the bad things I have been through are in the past. I believe I am on the right path now, dealing with the people who can help me, the right kind of people.

Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away.

If my son wanted to join the NYPD, I'd want him to have the same pathway to the middle class as I did.

Just like you can't cure a patient without listening to what he's feeling, you can't cure a nation without hearing what the people are really asking for.

The goal of embodying Christian ethics - if you want to call yourself a Christian - is being patient and loving with your neighbor.

Sometimes the Knicks just need to be the Knicks. And not the New York Knicks. What I mean by that is that they're New York's team and everybody is going to be focused on that. But they should learn to pace themselves, set goals and be patient with what they're doing.

My dad's a doctor. So when we were little, at our family Christmases, we'd always have a couple of his elderly patients over for lunch.

It is important to note that most of the patients in Ohio's mental health facilities have never committed crimes. They are institutionalised because they have lost touch with reality and are having problems functioning unaided in the community.

Covid-19-affected patients cannot be orphaned.

I'm not sure I'm the prototypical Patriot.

Let's be clear: a nationalist is not a patriot.

Marathon Day in Boston and all of Massachusetts, it's Patriot's Day, and it's a big celebration for us. It's a day when we're kind of the whole world's city there.

There are millions and millions of patriotic Muslim Americans.

I want to light the lights of patriotism.

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.