Quotes About Community

That best and justest fabric of things was of no long continuance, because it wanted that cement which should have kept all together, education.

Rather than "Survival of the Fittest"—which wasn't from Charles Darwin; it was a philosopher interpreting Darwin in 1864— we might have had the opposite, "Survival of the Most Cooperative.

Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together.

There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.

Help your children to see and notice poverty and differences in privilege that seem inhumane and unfair. Do this in a way that does not increase guilt or shame for what you have as a family, but rather helps them see their responsibility for sharing with others and keeping others in mind.

Similarly that is no true democracy in which the whole crowd of citizens is free to do whatever they wish or purpose, but when, in a community where it is traditional and customary to reverence the gods, to honor our parents, to respect our elders, and to obey the laws, the will of the greater number prevails, this is to be called a democracy.

We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ.

As the source of our new life in Christ, the Holy Spirit is also, in a very real way, the soul of the Church, the love that binds us to the Lord and to one another, and the light that opens our eyes to see all around us the wonders of God's grace.

The ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery, are not Churches in the proper sense; however, those who are baptized in these communities are, by Baptism, incorporated in Christ and thus are in a certain communion, albeit imperfect, with the Church.

The time has come for me to say good-bye-or better, 'arrivederci!'. World Youth Day 2011 will take place in Madrid, Spain. Until then, let us continue to pray for one another, and let us joyfully bear witness to Christ before the world.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people must git it this soul.

Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

Ciò che mi colpisce, quando considero il mondo cattolico, è che all'interno del cattolicesimo sembra talvolta predominare un pensiero di tipo non cattolico, e può avvenire che questo pensiero non cattolico all'interno del cattolicesimo diventi domani il più forte. Ma esso non rappresenterà mai il pensiero della Chiesa. Bisogna che sussista un piccolo gregge, per quanto piccolo esso sia.

We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.

If you're ever lucky enough to belong somewhere, if a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don't desert it just because it can kill you. There are things more valuable than life.

I sometimes wonder if I would have been less sick if I had had a home.

Another day working in the Borough of the Damned.

Any day of the week I would choose to be "out" with others and in touch with myself... then to be "in" with others and out of touch with myself.