Quotes about Community
The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
— CS Lewis
Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.
— Victor Hugo
Share your dream with people who want you to succeed.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Avoid getting into isolated groups because you will miss the move of God. Shun cliques because they are the bundles. Endeavor to stay in the mainstream of the move of God.
— Bishop TD Jakes
We need instead to find people who are in sync with our beat and form a more perfect union with those who hear the same rhythm! It is time for us to find the thing we were created to do, the people we were meant to affect, and the power that comes from alignment with purpose.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Street cred is hard won and Destiny requires you to pay it forward. God helps you through hard times so you can help someone else.
— Bishop TD Jakes
It's better to gather in righteousness than fellowship with darkness.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Can the wounded heal the hurting?
— Bishop TD Jakes
His absence leaves us desperately looking for someone else to "fill in the blank." If the church doesn't do it, the gay community will. If the church doesn't do it, the gangs and drug lords will. If the church doesn't do it, the pornographers will. Empty sons will always look for someone to fill in the blank left by the father who isn't there.
— Bishop TD Jakes
You do the hundreds of things that a Christward heart does in the hope that God will put a match to those little sparks to cause it to become a conflagration in a community or in a nation.
— John Piper
Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.
— Charles Spurgeon
Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.
— Billy Graham