Quotes about Community

of the primitive Christians at Jerusalem

We are not wise in ourselves.7 So we must support one another,8 be tolerant of each other,9 help, teach and advise one another. It is in times of trouble that we really discover the true value of our helpers. They do not weaken us, but reveal their true nature.

See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Man should not consider his material possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need

Human beings are by their nature social and political, living in community even more than every other animal.

Shepherds of the flock should . . . seek the good of their flock, and every ruler the good of the people subject to him.

The rich do not act improperly if they before others take possession of property that was in the beginning common and share the property with others. But the rich sin if they indiscriminately prevent others from using the property.

Religion, then, is not limited to our relation to God, but embraces, our neighbour as well.

My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land.

I used to live on a houseboat near Hammersmith Bridge.

I cannot bring Christ to my neighbor and to the world if I have not first given him to my family.