Quotes about Community

If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

Liberty University is the world's largest and fastest-growing evangelical university.

It is important to be in the 'we' of the Church, in the 'we' of the life of the Liturgy.

Locally, I'll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

We have some of the most rock-solid, lovely friends in the world.

The author urges taking the pulse of the church outside our own neighborhood. More church attending Presbyterians in Ghana than Scotland, and while Western pastors beg to fill seats, some African pastors are asking people only to attend every second or third week to give room for others in packed churches.

In India, I learned a proverb that may seem somewhat heartless: "The tears of strangers are only water." It means we are obligated to help only our own; if others have a problem, we wish them well, but it's their problem.

Tocqueville writes that, for Americans, religion "must be regarded as the first of their political institutions.

When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.

THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: You should come with me to church.