Quotes about Community

God's revelation was not a mystic secret for the initiated, but a light to guide every member of God's community.

The invisible God makes himself visible in the love that Christians have for one another.

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

Church existed because of love and forgiveness, not because of man's accusations and disapproval.

Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact on American life than any other institution

Scientific information about the universe does not displace God. Some have said that they searched the heavens and did not see God. The universe with its measureless spaces remains a vast mystery to us, and those who do not find God in their immediate presence, in their heart and conscience, in the Word and the Christian community, will not find him in the universe either, even though they are equipped with the best telescopes that money can buy.

Where God's Word is, there is God Himself, there God's Spirit is at work, there God establishes His covenant, there He plants His church.

The church's holiness must not be sacrificed for its catholicity, and the church's catholicity may not be surrendered in favor of its holiness. For in denying either, we lose both. Both attributes by nature characterize the one Christian church.

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.