Community Quotes

With the Synod Assembly, therefore, I heartily recommend to the Church's pastors and to the People of God the practice of Eucharistic Adoration, both individually and in community

Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.

Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.

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Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.

In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you can accept my music

And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery

Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community.

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.

War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea.

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.

I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.

I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool

A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.

Benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual.

Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

My greatest work comes in the community.

The world is aware how jealously the Jewish community guards the Holocaust, both as a memory and a weapon.

The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.

In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.

Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.

Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.

My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the public schools to black kids.

We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.

I can only hope that one day soon we'll understand our true economic buying power by investing in our own communities and putting our money into businesses that keep our dollars in our community.

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.

Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'

It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.

Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, "Hey, we got a crazy man in the community," and they'll begin talking to you.

If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.

We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty.

The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

There's nothing more special than talking in your community, and using your celebrity to uplift people and help them.

The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain - stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment - over the long term.

Atheistic evolution isn't an intelligent belief, as atheists would have the black community believe.

Drama began as the act of a whole community. Ideally, there would be no speculators. In practice, every member of the audience should feel like an understudy.

I was a lost child. I wasn't accepted in the black community because I was Korean, and I wasn't accepted in the Korean community because I was black

Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.

Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.