Quotes about Community
Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.
— Oswald Chambers
In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men work together, whether they work together or apart.
— Robert Frost
The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.
— Seth Godin
We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.
— Shane Claiborne
Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.
— Timothy Keller
Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.
— Helen Keller
Be transparent. Let's build a community that allows hard questions and honest conversations so we can stir up transformation in one another.
— Germany Kent
When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.
— Dorothy Day
Out of 3,500 students in my high school, I was the only openly professing Christian kid. Obviously there were challenges. 'Only old and stupid people believe.'
— Miroslav Volf
The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.
— Charles Hodge
Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
— Vance Havner