Community Quotes
How we treat one another matters, and not just in a "it's nice to be nice" kind of way: our behavior contributes to an environment that encourages some opportunities and hinders others.
People want to do something to make the world a better place. They will help when they are invited to.
Seek justice: Make a commitment to serve the needs of the ‘least of these’ and give voice to the voiceless.
In our sin, we’d rather trust in ourselves than another, amass our own righteousness than receive another’s, speak our own mind rather than listen to someone else.
Disclosing one's "deep, dark secrets" makes them no less deep or dark or secret than any other petty flaw.
When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. "That's a curious view, not uninteresting.
God's people are the stage upon which His forgiveness becomes visible. They are never more authentic than when they ask for forgiveness and forgive others.
You can become the greatest personality in your community by developing the sagacity of humility, teachability, prosperity-mentality and accountability.
The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence.
The absence of conditions for self-realization in a country, region and community leads to stagnation, social and economic crisis
I'm always trying to gain and keep the audience's respect. I always want them to know that the show doesn't think they're stupid for watching.
we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other.
Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available.
Because people understand that the diocese is trying to help the members of that group feel more connected to their church, the church they belong to by virtue of their baptism.
I walk into so many places where Christians are gathered and I get all excited, only to find that the fellowship among these Believers is dead! There is no openness, no authenticity.
James Smith argues that liturgies “are compressed, performed narratives that recruit the imagination through the body.
It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune.
The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.
His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction.
A community best serves itself when it truly serves the awakening of the unique story trying to come to life through each person born.
Years later Lazar would recall questioning his mother as to who the people who shared his meals were. "Some are our relations, " was the response, "But all of them are our people.
Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate...
I would have been trying to pitch a concept about my community to someone that most likely was not a part of that community.
When you a get a job you are not qualified for, it will be evil to you and to your community.
Throw your empty pop-corn tub in the trash and the entire cinema will be clean for the next patrons.
The vampire community has enough problems. We don't need to add petty backbiting to it.
Because we are a globally connected village, we need to remember that our choices are not isolated. They have a powerful ripple effect, and that ripple is global.
Our small group is committed to getting the biblical text under our skin.
I experienced the Church to be this refuge within and beyond myself.
Even though Paul knew farewells were inevitable, he still formed deep relationships.
A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion to work on one's own character flaws.
A Christian atmosphere is no protection against preening egos.
The advantage which disciplined soldiers have over undisciplined hordes follows cheaply from the confidence which each man feels in his comrades. Charles Darwin
I serve, " should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven.
The author says crises tend to reveal the connectivity of systems that had previously been study only in isolation.
The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us.
Relationships we complain about nevertheless keep us connected to life.
Worship shadows eternity and provides supernatural encouragement.
The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.