Quotes About Community

Groups satisfy our brain's natural inclination to make sense of hordes of people we encounter and observe. This quality is so inherent that children intuitively understand the need to form groups without adults having to teach them.

The cafeteria made him feel like an observer rather than a participant in the high school experience.

Membership in small groups allows people to feel similar and different at the same time: similar because they are a part of a group in different because the group is separate from the masses.

He didn't realize that simply by mingling among various lunch tables, he was befriending people in different crowds, weaving together the fringes of the cafeteria.

Exclusion is common behavior. But that doesn't make it unchangeable. And that doesn't mean that anything is wrong with the cafeteria fringe.

The only way I'm going to make any friends is if I take the first step.

straight white males need supportive communities, too.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

And now gentlemen, all for one, one for all - that is our motto, is it not?

There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe.

Tous pour un, un pour tous

Nothing causes more people to deny God, misunderstand God, mistreat others, or abuse Nature more than the illusion of separateness. Nothing. No thing.

A human being has to look out for other human beings or else there's no civilization.

The Holy Ghost likes to be invited into our midst.

Make your own kind of music. Sing your own special song. But don't crank the volume up so loudly you annoy the heck out of all the neighbors.

Still, I love a crowd of us.

Politics is human beings it's addition rather than subtraction.

No creative work is ever the product of one person alone (no matter how tempting it is to believe our own hype)

Congregarse» indiscutiblemente significa reunirse en la presencia física de otros creyentes.

Hay un elemento de la adoración y de la vida cristiana que nunca puede experimentarse en la adoración a solas ni observando la adoración de otros. Hay algunas gracias y bendiciones que nuestro Padre nos da únicamente cuando nos «congregamos» con otros creyentes como familia de Dios.

To quote Charles Spurgeon, I trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ who do not also practice prayer in their families. We may have no positive commandment for it, but we believe that it is so much in accord with the genius and spirit of the gospel, and that it is so commended by the example of the saints, that the neglect thereof is a strange inconsistency.1

We could summarize the views of our Christian heroes across the centuries with a sentence from Jonathan Edwards: "Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.

Many of the great movements of God can be traced to a small group of people He called together to begin praying.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.