Quotes about Community

The problem with thinking "we go to church" is that it gives us a consumer mindset: I'm looking for a church that meets my needs. I need a good church that will help me.

We find our lives when we give them away.

Rather than being concerned only with my hopes, my dreams, my concerns, I was called to shepherd others. To love them, hurt with them, pour into them.

Southwestern Pennsylvania is home to the National Cemetery for the Alleghenies, and we already have local schools signed up and ready to research every veteran that is buried there.

It's always good to have other people who you can lean on and pick you up when you're down and vice versa.

I've had Christians treat me in a way that is so wrong and so vicious, I realized there's a difference between God's people and God.

But sometimes I fear that the people of my country can unite only beside victims' bodies, over coffins and in cemeteries. Like tribesmen who dance around old totems, we ignore the living and can only appreciate the dead.

Learn how to ask for what you need in a way that leaves your community feeling not only empowered to give you what you ask for, but inspired to do so.

I understood now that all of us have that place inside that wants to be part of something, that needs the comfort and companionship of loved ones. Within each of us, there is an empty room, and when we open the door, light flows in. The wider we open it, and the longer we leave it open, the brighter our souls become.

Help them to show the world that our greatness is not in things we do for ourselves, but in things we do for others.

I was not alone in the human condition.

Through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Iola's words whispered in my mind. Was she thinking of the