Quotes about Community

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

Zion is where the pure in heart are gathered; that gathering creates a Zion.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

The charitable system that does not aim to make itself unnecessary is not performing service.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.