Quotes About Community

If the church is to be missionary, she must be spiritual; and if the church is to be spiritual, she must be missionary.

Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters.

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

The question of bread for myself is a material question; but the question of bread for my neighbour, for everybody, is a spiritual and a religious question.

Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life.

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

We are not cistern made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

One's spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one's fellow beings.

There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship to the universe.

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.

Every time we watch over one another, godlike qualities of love, patience, kindness, generosity, and spiritual commitment fill the souls of those we visit and enlarge our souls as well.

Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

Buddhas continue to live on through their teachings as dharma bodies. Their spirits become manifest in the sangha (spiritual community) where their teachings are passed on.

Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. Its far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, its not a big stretch from hymns.

If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of their spiritual life.

If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

We have to get back to the spiritual law if we are to survive.

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but for me, there's no difference.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.