Quotes about Community

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

When a man unites with the church, he should not come saying, "I am so holy that I think I must go in among the saints," but, "O brethren, I find I am so weak and wicked that I cannot stand alone; so, if you can help me, open the door and let me enter."

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them — the whole leaf and root tribe.

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.

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.

One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church.

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.

For this sin-hungry age we need a prayer-hungry Church.

The sweet hour of prayer as a mid-week breather in the church has been reduced to a sweet twenty minutes of prayer.