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“Finally Bill Mixter would lower his head, lay his bow upon the strings, and draw out the first notes of a tune, and the others would come in behind him. The music, while it lasted, brought a new wo...”
“I finally understood that I couldnt avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderfulthing, a beautiful thing.”
“Unity without uniformity, community without conformity.”
“Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.”
“The Latino community anchored me, but I didn't want it to isolate me from the full extent of what Princeton had to offer, including engagement with the larger community. Page 148”
“If you are a leader or someone who works for the interest of a community, first make sure that you understand the interest of the people who make up that community. In this way, you will have a goo...”
“Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.”
“In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own institutions-whether all-absorbing megachurches,...”
“The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.”
“The goal of using our voice is not just to be noticed, but with humility to gracefully be fully present in relationships. Deferring to another person does not require that we be ignored; allowing t...”
“Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?”
“We were breathing sooty air. The soot was composed of incinerated glass and steel but also, we knew, incinerated human flesh. When the local TV news announced that rescue workers sorting through th...”
“Look at it this waybefore any of this wood became parts of the shelves or the desk or the chair, all of it was in piecesjust pieces of wood. But the wood was full of potential. It could be shaped i...”
“They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.”
“As an introverted person, I struggle even writing about community because I know how difficult it often is for me to walk across the room to converse with people. People often drain the energy out ...”
“We may be little, insignificant servants in the eyes of a world motivated by efficiency, control and success. But when we realize that God has chosen us from all eternity, sent us into the world as...”
“She was drowningin friendliness, in communityand she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out.”
“Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.”
“Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.”
“The relationship between any two communities in the global economy is not unlike a marriage. As couples counselors advise, relationships falter when two partners are too interdependent. When any st...”
