Quotes about Community

The sense of being alone is a huge issue for so many people in this world. As a worshipper of Jesus, there's a very real sense that we are always seen, held and known.

We human beings can survive the most difficult of circumstances if we are not forced to stand alone.

You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

It is imperative that we recognize that whatever has happened to us has happened to others. They have coped and so must we. We are not alone. Heavenly Father's help is near.

Working with others makes us much more than we could ever become alone

No, nobody but nobody can make it out her alone.

I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

If someone is there to believe in you, to care about you and support you, amazing things can happen.

The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.

All the episodes from my stories and novels are not about food only, but about meals. You can eat food by yourself. A meal, according to my understanding anyhow, is a communal event, bringing together family members, neighbors, even strangers. At its most ordinary, it involves hospitality, giving, receiving, and gratitude.

And yet a knowledge is here that tenses the throat as for song: the inheritance of the ones, alive or once alive, who stand behind the ones I have imagined, who took into their minds the troubles of this place, blights of love and race, but saw a good fate here and willingly paid its cost, kept it the best they could, thought of its good, and mourned the good they lost. (From the ending of Where in Clearing, p179)