Quotes About Community

If all the Christians- I mean all of 'em- got outta the pews on Sundays and into the streets, we'd shut the city down. We'd shut down hunger. We'd shut down loneliness. We'd shut down the notion that there is any such of a thing as a person that don't deserve a kind word and a second chance.

All over town kids lay awake & wondered: Am I smart enough, pretty enough, strong enough, tall enough? If our fears were smoke, the town would be covered night & day by an inky pall.

I'd see that look again when I taught at the community college, always in the eyes of women who'd grown up hard, a distrust of anything spoken softly.

In a small Southern town during the 1950s, elopement and divorce were serious moral transgressions deserving of punishment.

The church is called a "new man" in Ephesians 2:15, meaning it could not have existed in Old Testament times.

In Ashringford, if souls are rare, we've at least some healthy spirits.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.

I think growing up in a small town is a good foundation for anyone who decides to enter politics. You get to know people as individuals, not as blocs or members of special interest groups.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under. ~Ronald Reagan

How can we love our country and not love our countrymen; and loving them, reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they're sick, and provide opportunity to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just in theory?

there is no limit to the amount of good that you can do so long as you do not care who gets the credit.

We can't help everyone but everyone can help someone.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Our word "lord" comes from the Old English hlaford, or "loafward," he who guarded the bread supply — and was expected to share it.

tengo la creciente sensación de que hay una continuidad en la mente humana; de que, en efecto, existe un inconsciente colectivo que nos entreteje, como si fuéramos cardúmenes de apretados peces que danzan al unísono sin saberlo.

No son precisamente esos muros invisibles de cosas silenciadas uno de los elementos más habituales de la vida en común?

The Scottish clan system was an extraordinary thing. No man was any man's servant, but part of a family. Which is why your average Highlander does not walk through life with a chip on his shoulder. He is proud. He knows he is as good as you are, and probably a good deal better.

One of the greatest obstacles for blind children, not just in Tibet but everywhere in the world, is that they are seldom treated equally with sighted children, that they are perceived as being helpless, as somehow special and different. In families and the community beyond, very little is expected of the blind child. This reinforces in them the feeling that they are useless and incapable. Special isn't good either way.

La sociedad pervierte al ser humano.

T]here is no goodness that is not bodily and realistic and local.

I have, by God's grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God's mercy, which does not leave me to overcome my sin by my own effort, so I have something to say to the fellow-sufferer who does not know where to look for hope. And what I have to say depends utterly on my willingness not to let go of that awareness of myself that reminds me where I start each day—not as a finished saint but as a needy person still struggling to grow.

That one of the most impoverished communities in the Americas would refuse a billion dollars demonstrates the relevance and significance of the land to the Sioux, not as an economic resource but as a relationship between people and place, a profound feature of the resilience of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.