Quotes About Community

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

Women are the sustaining force of any society - they think of the children and the next generation's chances.

Society tends to pin women against each other, but we need to treat each other with kindness and compliment one another instead. Because women's voices are the strongest when they're together.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

It is not a church's job to spiritually develop your children. Scripturally, it is the job of the parents. The church body is supposed to support parents in raising children, not replace them.

There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful.

We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with countless others.

If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying, learning community that values the life of the mind

There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.

No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.

Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature.

If you are having the right kind of spiritual fellowship, you will have power with God, and there is no escaping it!

We were not placed on this earth to walk alone.

When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.