Quotes about Community

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world

I must tell you that even while working I think continually about the plan of setting up a studio in which you and I will be permanent residents, but which both of us want to turn into a shelter and refuge for friends, against the times when they find that the struggle is getting too much for them.

We weren't put on Earth to exclude each other.

I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of Winter.

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.

He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.

The future belongs to those who have the courage to create it. We need a new humanity. We need a new expression of community. We need the Church to bring the world together. This makes me excited.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.

As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God's name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?)