Community Quotes
God never taught us to live like TV DINNERS in a freezer: Together, but totally separate. #community
I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.
The more people that meet each other, the better it is for all of them. ("The Gift Of God").
The GR site has acquired its market value through the work of its community.
America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like an ice floe in a storm.
impossible situations can arise on other planets too. We don’t need to think that we’re the only ones who struggle and fight.
I've got nothing to offer you kids but these noodles. They're good noodles but they won't change the world.
Here is the paradox of it: the more of an individual you become the more you realize we are interrelated, that success of one requires the success of all.
I realized that the story of even so small a place can never be completely told and can never be finished. It is eternal, always here and now, and going on forever.
The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life’s challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.
Everywhere in these days men have, in their mockery, ceased to understand that the true security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort.
I felt as if each person within visual range were slowly draining the life from me. We were all connected, and the more them there were, the more I wanted to crawl under a table and cry.
If you look at every flower individually, they look quite miserable. Put them together in a vase and they become a bouquet and that's quite attractive. I think about our community often in that way
The astronomical community need to start acknowledging jet aircraft contrails to be the problem that they really are!
If you possess enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find you are not alone.
Sticks and stones may break your bones, and words – can cut your insides.
Christ's vast benevolence must, from the very nature of things, have afforded Him the deepest possible delight, for benevolence is joy.
He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him.
Excessive gentrification destroys the biodiversity and ecosystem of a community.
In the midst of the apparent diversity of human affairs, a certain number of primary facts may be discovered, from which all others are derived.
The sight of big ships, of the many new uniforms, at once serious and cool, left Bush with an overall sense of the navy's power and camaraderie and purpose.
Cultural change works orders of magnitude faster then genetic change. Stephen Jay Gould
God grows the Church through holiness in Christians.
Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.
He was always the bridge, between men as well as between ideas.
Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.
Were people to mingle only with those of like mind, every man would be an insulate being." Thomas Jefferson
Isolation is not a healthy ‘coping’ method, it’s like quarantining yourself in a gas chamber!
While never violating our uniqueness, we move together, united in heart and soul. Our greatness is unleashed in the context of community. When we move together, God is most perfectly revealed in us.
Adams met with a convention on keeping the Sabbath and found the atmosphere surprisingly similar to that in Congress. Legalistic disputes so abounded that he found it difficult to keep order.
Our hatred of government is not caused mainly by government's goals, whatever their wisdom, but by government's techniques." Philip Howard
Law, rather than harnessing the passions, is increasingly pressed into their service.
George Foreman looks as if he might have organically appeared out of the very ground around the church.
The Word, the Gospel, creates not just people individually but A people collectively
Washington DC is happiest when in indignation overdrive.
Be the thermostat in your community, the one who makes a change. Not the thermometer who, just watches
Well, in the early days of humans, the community was our only protection against predators, and against the starvation. We survived because we trusted one another.
The author concedes that the body of Christ may often judge wrongly, but he says that the judgment of the body as a whole is more sound that is one's ability to judge self objectively.
paying taxes is a cheap price for a quiet conscience—much cheaper than actually having to get involved in the lives of their fellow citizens.
Life is hard. Find some really good people to walk through it with. It makes things a little easier.
In addition to an open heart and open mind, I also brought (to the small group Bible study) an open mouth.