Quotes about Community

CHURCH is like a hospital. It's where people who are sick, broken, bruised, beaten, and battered with life because of sin and unrighteousness come for help. It's okay if you are here and don't have all your life together. If you had all your life together, you wouldn't need to be here. However, hospitals do not tolerate sick people hanging around who don't want to get better. No doctor is going to keep fooling with a patient

every organization must contribute in some way to a better world for some group of people, because if it doesn't, it will, and should, go out of business.

I believe it's long past time that we, as individuals and as a society, reestablished the standard that leadership can never be about the leader more than the led.

Great team players lack excessive ego or concerns about status. They are quick to point out the contributions of others and slow to seek attention for their own. They share credit, emphasize team over self, and define success collectively rather than individually. It is no great surprise, then, that humility is the single greatest and most indispensable attribute of being a team player. Humility is the single greatest and most indispensable attribute of being a team player.

Users are a double-edged sword. They can help you improve your language, but they can also deter you from improving. So choose your users carefully, and be slow to grow their number. Having users is like optimization: the wise course is to delay it.

In almost any group of people you'll find hierarchy. When groups of adults form in the real world, it's generally for some common purpose, and the leaders end up being those who are best at it. The problem with most schools is, they have no purpose. But hierarchy there must be. And so the kids make one out of nothing.

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

The boy knew that in money there was magic; whoever has money is never really alone.

We were born alone, and we will die alone. But while we are on this planet, we must accept and glorify our act of faith through other people.

Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.