Quotes about Community
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
— Henry Ward Beecher
One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with the pearls of intellectualism, nor glamorous with the silks of philosophy; neither is she enchanting with the tiara of psychology.
— Leonard Ravenhill
For this sin-hungry age we need a prayer-hungry Church.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The sweet hour of prayer as a mid-week breather in the church has been reduced to a sweet twenty minutes of prayer.
— Leonard Ravenhill
At the table, where food and stories are passed from one person to another and one generation to another, is where each of us learns who we are, where we come from, what we can be, to whom we belong, and to what we are called.
— Leonard Sweet
Scholar George Myerson has recently written a study of happiness. After 250 pages tracking moments of joy throughout history, he concludes that humans are happiest hanging with friends, gathered around tables with good food and conversation and laughter. If you can get that table out of doors, so the sun can kiss the skin—if as you dine together you can also provide help for others—then, according to Myerson, you've won the lottery of life.[36]
— Leonard Sweet
Christians have become passive spectators in worship rather than active participants. By and large, we come to church to "watch the show" rather than to engage and participate.
— Leonard Sweet
Anyone who doesn't need company is either greater than a man, and is a God, or lesser than a man, and is a beast.17 —Aristotle, as quoted by Saint Thomas Aquinas
— Leonard Sweet
For Jesus the home is not what defines the table; the table is what defines the home.
— Leonard Sweet
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
— Les Brown