Quotes About Community

so my cousin was called Shay D., which quickly became Shady." "Unusual name for a police officer," Monty said.

Even John Wolfgard was coming over to help, and the Wolves hadn't done anything about moving into their own place except pee on the house.

It's also practical. Our survival depends on the goodwill we can generate.

And it is this search for meaning that keeps us from living in fear. The key to a healthy life is not to be alone, to breathe the same air with others, to share the sensation of living through moments together.

We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes.

Language is what eases the pain of living with other people, language is what makes the wounds come open again.

Val is a bachelor farmer in his seventies, so he should, by rights, be half mad.

Dubliners talk to each other very easily. We talk as though getting back to it, after some interruption.

During the summers, she worked with the fit-ups.

The Hmong have a phrase, hais cuaj txub kaum txub, which means "to speak of all kinds of things." It is often used at the beginning of an oral narrative as a way of reminding the listeners that the world is full of things that may not seem to be connected but actually are; that no event occurs in isolation; that you can miss a lot by sticking to the point; and that the storyteller is likely to be rather long-winded.

he can't reveal he has AIDS in his village, or he would be ostracized and lose his job as a mechanic.

I am afraid of being infected," they tell him, "but I am even more afraid of being left alone.

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. ROMANS 12:10

While many good friends stood by us and stood up for us, we knew that we had obviously become a problem for the majority. So taking great care not to split the church by forcing people to take sides, we quietly left.

As I look back on my life, it saddens me to acknowledge that some of my most painful wounds were inflicted by religious people — Gods people.

Jesus' example teaches a powerful lesson. He demonstrates that one way to overcome emotional pain is to focus on the needs of others — to reach out and help someone else who may also be suffering.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. JOHN 13:35

Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 1 PETER 2:10

We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. We write this to make our joy complete. 1 JOHN 1:3 – 4

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. ACTS 16:25

He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out…. And his sheep follow him because they know his voice. JOHN 10:3 – 4

Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me. MARK 9:37

God's people don't always act like God's people should.

it is not enough to cure the sick; you have to cure them with methods accepted by the community."18