Quotes about Community

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

Christmas-time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave.

This world abounds indeed with misery: to lighten its burthen we must divide it with one another.

I, who have no sisters nor brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends...

Every testimony is valid because there is someone out there a lot like you.

You show me a church that does not have a constant flow of new Christians coming in, and I will show you a church that is stagnating. We in the church have a choice: evangelize or fossilize!

Jesus did not say that the whole world should go to church, but He did say that the church should go to the whole world.

Become a tourist for a day in your own hometown. Take a tour. See the sights.

Through the reading of scripture, the people hear other stories about Jesus that enable them to move beyond the privateness of their own stories.

They shouted, danced, clapped their hands and stomped their feet as they bore witness to the power of Jesus' cross which had given them an identity far more meaningful than the harm that white supremacy could do them.

To be black means that your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body are where the dispossessed are." To become black is like what Jesus told Nicodemus, that he must be "born again," that is, "born of water and Spirit" (John 3), the Black Spirit of liberation.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents.