Quotes about Community

Growing up in rural Ohio, I knew my way around a double-wide pretty well.

Playing in a city like Norman, where it's all about Oklahoma football. A no-brainer for me.

We can never get around to being one nation under God if we can't even get around to being one Church under God.

I grew up an only child, and I always felt as if I didn't fit in. In middle school, in grammar school, and even high school, I just didn't feel like I fit in.

I've always had a huge dream of opening an animal shelter.

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community

Today, I see and create a radically new vision, one where everyone wins, everyone gets a seat at the table.

Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Every day do a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face.

when the time comes for you to make an ask, there is someone there to lend a hand.

The adult members of churches today rarely raise serious religious questions for fear of revealing their doubts or being thought of as strange. There is an implicit conspiracy of silence on religious matters in the churches. This conspiracy covers up the fact that the churches do not change lives or influence conduct to any appreciable degree.