Quotes about Communities
For the Levites, then, there were forty-eight cities in all, together with their pasturelands, within the territory of the Israelites.
— Joshua 21:41
In all, ten cities, together with their pasturelands, were given to the rest of the Kohathite clans.
— Joshua 21:26
To be truly alive is to be transformed from within, open to the energy of God's love. In accepting the power of the Holy Spirit you can also transform your families, communities and nations. Set free the gifts! Let wisdom, courage, awe and reverence be the marks of greatness!
— Pope Benedict XVI
The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands.
— Numbers 35:7
Good men stand against evil and overcome it, in their private lives and in their communities.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
So the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants, along with some of the people, settled in their own towns; and the rest of the Israelites settled in their towns.
— Ezra 2:70
Republicans have to tell the truth about the issues impacting the black community. The must focus on restoring the black family, jobs, safe communities, and better schools. They have to make sure not to pander to blacks by treating them like victims or as 'special minority' group.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.
— Rick Warren
from Beth-gilgal, and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for they had built villages for themselves around Jerusalem.
— Nehemiah 12:29
Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.
— Lee Strobel
Make no mistake, the privatization of prisons is less about unburdening taxpayers than it is about providing bankrupt communities with sources of income and especially about providing corporations with a captured population available for unpaid labor.
— Toni Morrison
We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.
— Wendell Berry