Quotes About Community

being human is a team sport.

Don't just invest in ammo and electric fences, invest in people and relationships.

Firstly, we see that Cascadians are definitely different from the others with whom they share this continent. In a number of fundamental and interrelated ways, Cascadia can be considered to have a distinct culture.

Andrew Grenville's tailored polling reveals Cascadians tend to be less trusting of religion and more tolerant of marijuana (see above) and homosexual relationships than others across the continent. Even though Cascadians' individualism could harm their chances of building strong communities, Grenville believes that their live-and-let-live attitude, optimism and self-responsibility could create a culture that serves as a beacon to the planet.

the traditional form of Hoshin Kanri, there is a grouping of four perspectives. It is no surprise that the balanced scorecard perspectives are mirror images (see Exhibit 1.8). As with the balanced scorecard, Hoshin Kanri can be improved with the introduction of employee satisfaction and environment and community. EXHIBIT 1.8 Similarities between Hoshin Kanri and Balanced Scorecard Perspectives

Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

One of the most pernicious errors that has gotten abroad in the Christian community is the error of sentimentalism - the view that evil is to be evaded, rather than the more robust Christian view that it is to be conquered. The Christian believes that evil is there to be fought, the dragon is there to be slain. The sentimentalist believes that evil is to be resented.

A creedal church is one in which the words I believe in God the Father Almighty provoke tears of gladness in strong men. A creed muttered in nominal unbelief is oxymoronic. The word creed comes from "credo," I believe. A creedal church believes certain things to be true, and acts as though truth mattered.

Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.' (Prov. 27:17) In a similar way that conversation sharpens a man's countenance, conversation with men throughout history sharpens a man's mind... If this is the case, and it is, then a point should be made to seek out profitable companions in a disciplined fashion throughout your life with books.

Did you know that there are places in the world where women can just drop the child in the field, and go on with the harvest? What does that suggest to you?" "Third world? Grinding poverty? Gross infant mortality rates?" Bradford guessed.

All this said, fussy grammarians need friends too, and so you may seek out and encourage them. Drop them a little note, telling them that they are your very favorite fussy grammarian, out with whom you like to hang. And if anybody winced there at my use of a plural pronoun for an indefinite singular, then may I suggest counseling?

The prophet Daniel offered a great prayer of confession (Dan. 9:4) even though there was no evidence that he had done any of the things he was confessing. This is because we are not just distinct individuals. He was an Israelite and Israel had sinned.

humanity is what it is in the recesses of our hearts, and it is what it is in the public square.

Leftism is that impulse that wants to establish coercion and call it community. Apply

The unity our nation needs—and we do desperately need it—is not a "group hug" unity, and it is not that kind of unity with a Jesus shine put on it. The message is not "Jesus could help us to like each other better," although that would be a downstream consequence. The message we rather need to hear, and which the church needs to declare, is "Jesus forgives our sins.

A father must beware the false dichotomy between individualism and "patriarchalism." The individualist says to each person in the family that responsibility begins and ends with him. Only one person can be responsible for one thing. The "patriarchalist" approach would agree and then say that the only person responsible in the family is the Boss Man. If he is responsible, then no one else can ever do anything freely. Both approaches are erroneous.

We cannot carry everything, but God still insists that we carry something. We are to weep with those who weep (Rom. 12:15). God wants us to be a neighbor to those who suffer without aspiring to the position of a god in the lives of those who suffer. And in the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus defines neighbor as the one in front of us right now.

Why should you care if there is a hole in the ship if the hole is not in your cabin?

More broadly, it's the place where people who really love stuff go to express that love, and where people who want to sell them stuff try desperately to woo them.

Something as simple as an act of kindness, a compliment, a helping hand to a fellow human being, becomes a way of choosing life.

May we keep rage off of the freeways, and out of the workplace, and out of our homes, and direct it instead at racism, at poverty and at all the evils that we politely tolerate. May we learn in this new year that what really counts the most is not the years but the days, not the machines we have in our lives, but the people we have in our lives, not how much we can accumulate but how much we can share, and with whom.

The tongue hardly quarrels with the teeth even though they both live together. Let us as humans learn to live together because there is enough space for everyone to survive in life

Surround yourself with people who are positive and who guard against negative talk.

Politics isn't about big money or power games, it's about the improvement of people's lives. Paul Wellstone