Quotes About Community

I asked Phil Prentiss what he would do if they never got a baby and he said they'd die with a lot of excess love in their hearts…." "And let's not," Jack said. "Let's spend every drop. On the kids, on our families, on your patients, on the town. On people we don't know yet and the ones who have been our good friends forever. On each other. Let's spend our last drop as we're taking our last breaths.

People belong wherever they feel good. It can be a lot of different places. For a lot of different reasons.

It's no good to lose touch with people who mean a lot,

tuition, lots of fund-raising and often

She would never be without support. Sierra was nine months sober.

Because I've been to war, and it still wasn't as scary as living around here.

Because we don't need some skinny-ass white lady trying to save her soul by slumming it in the ghetto. Come on, have you looked in a mirror? This ain't your neighborhood." She delivers this with the kind of disdain only a teenager can muster.

think of this often, drifting from community to community, always being the stranger and never the neighbor. People all over really are the same. They want to fall in love. They're glad to survive each day. They pray their children will have a better life than they did. These truths bind

The world would be a better place if more people spent time drinking cheap coffee in church basements.

The lesson God engraved on my heart that day was while I didn't necessarily need the money, she needed to give it. The exchange itself—both the giving and the receiving—illustrates a key characteristic of Christian community. To open-handedly bless others from the riches God has so generously given us and to open-handedly receive blessings from others binds believers together in an interdependent, Jesus-and-others-oriented web of grace.

And let us consider one another in order to provoke love and good works, not neglecting to gather together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day approaching. Hebrews 10:24–25

We are surrounded by a great cloud of people whose lives tell us what faith means. So let us run the race that is before us and never give up." —Hebrews 12:1a NCV

one may scarcely find one man among seven women, so many women are there widowed whilst their husbands are alive'.

The only way to really know what was going on in the world was to listen to women talk. Anyone who ignores the chatter of women is poorer by any measure.

Night came early to this neighborhood, the sun fleeing the sky, leaving heaven black and blue.

Her father had grown up with The Tonys; Tony "From-Down-The-Block" LoMonaco, "Pigeon" Tony Lucia, and Tony "Two Feet" Pensiera, which got shortened to "Feet," so even his nickname had a nickname.

The locals tell me that alcoholism and crime increases in fracking areas. Also traffic accidents, because of the heavy machinery using roads not meant to carry the loads and noise.

Lisa Scottoline

I love libraries and am their huge supporter, speaking at them and raising funds whenever I can.

Books center us, heal us, and connect us, and I believe that reading is fundamental to democracy.

I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night, ACT 2, SCENE 4

Her heart was like a great road with room for everyone.

Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest.

hers was just one of many loud voices, since the ears of all haenyeo are damaged over time by water pressure.