Quotes about Community

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother - my mother's mother - who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.

We Catholics have been in the forefront in defending the dignity of the human person. Clericalism is a direct violation of human dignity.

Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.

Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

It is important that you're out, and it is important that you're visible.

If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.

Don't tell people about your problems...90% of them don't care, and the other 10% are glad you got them?

If social media is used as a way for people to celebrate others and share life together around the world and talk about Jesus and the gospel, then social media is great. But if social media is where you are getting your approval and if it's your drug, then social media is going to kill you. Tweet that.