715 quotes found
“With a more expansive stretch, theres a better chance that Ill be around at the precise, random moment when one of my nephews drops his guard and solicits my advice about something private. Or when...”
“The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.”
“you dont have to live in community long to realize that lives which are blessed and instructive are still flawed. The grace of the gospel isnt only that the Word was made flesh in Jesus, but also t...”
“As I witness and participate in our visionary efforts to revitalize Detroit and contrast them with the multibillion dollars' worth of megaprojects advanced by politicians and developed that involve...”
“In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that is 1 1/4 acres to a family of five, that would be more than enough land to supp...”
“You could call her perilous because she was so strong in herself.”
“If we was master, then we could help ourselves.”
“It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.”
“Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of another person, even though these be of an altogether spiritual nature, is worldly and has no place in...”
“On becoming a mother, I had forever left that solitary state of girlhood behind, and if I sometimes pined to be alone with Augustine as we used to be in our first love, a quick glance at my sleepin...”
“It is arrogant to pretend to understand everybody, and doing it in order to live with them, or love them-- well. If it depended on understanding, there would not be any communities, or relationship...”
“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
“Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or lov...”
“I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.”
“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities”
“If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part...”
“Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy--in fact, the ...”
“To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.”
“And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister's story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling...”
“One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals. When we pool our strength and share the work and responsibility, we...”
