715 quotes found
“We are a reminder to ourselves and others that we, as individuals and as a community, are stronger than we could have ever known until the moment we endured more than we previously thought possible.”
“Nearly half of all associational memberships are church-religious context. Religious worshipers and people who say religion is very important to them are much more likely than other persons to visi...”
“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their s...”
“Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.”
“The perfect state is one where men weep and rejoice over the same things.”
“Sartre felt that Hell is other people, but precisely the opposite is true. Hell is being left alone forever with no other reality than your own consciousness of yourself. It is being locked in a ca...”
“A community of smashed up things and somehow everyone was willing to share the superglue”
“A father's aim is to raise children who themselves raise good citizens.”
“An institution needs more than one person to survive.”
“The conscience is a communal organa way of knowing that we do with others formed always in reference to others.”
“A healthy community is never a product of circumstances. It is rather a fruit of oneness in heart in the spirit of true neighbourhood.”
“There is a great difference between successfulness and fruitfulness. Success comes from strength, control, and respectability. A successful person has the energy to create something, to keep contro...”
“It is in fact an orderly community. The green plants are food for the plant eaters, which are food for the predators, and some of those predators are food for still other predators. And what's left...”
“The body of Christ is about doing life together, and by doing life together sin is revealed.”
“There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.”
“Had his own way of praying, he had said; that old excuse. As if we were meant to be solitary. As if the church were not about holding the community together, as this sinful one needed.”
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
“Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a futur...”
“It is the community that suffers when it refuses to validate any outside standards, and won't allow even the legitimate exercise of authority by the professionals it has hired.”
“We had started out caring about each other, but in the end none of us knew how to care for each other. But this experience taught me that a community based on the idea that everyone hates rules is,...”
