Quotes about Community

we were made to be a part of a great adventure. An adventure that is shared. We do not want the adventure merely for adventure's sake but for what it requires of us for others. We don't want to be alone in it; we want to be in it with others.

Church is not a building. Church is not an event that takes place on Sundays. I know, it's how we've come to think of it. "I go to First Baptist." "We are members of St. Luke's." "Is it time to go to church?" Much to our surprise, that is not how the Bible uses the term. Not at all. Certainly, the body of Christ is a vast throng, millions of people around the globe. But when Scripture talks about church, it means community.

You see, whenever we live in relationship, whenever we simply live in proximity to other people, sooner or later we will run up against their issues—the unhealed or unholy parts of their personalities. Just as they will run into ours. Living in community is like a pack of porcupines sharing the same den. We will get stuck.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country. My citizens of the world. Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

Described Washington as a community of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

He can no longer have God for a Father, who has not the Church for a Mother.

My chest of books divide amongst my friends--

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.