Quotes about Community

The house of the Lord doesn't filter out the flock" - Wanda Lovell

A group is the right size, I would guess, when each member can pray every day for every other member, individually and by name, interceding for his personal needs as well as for the success of a particular mission. But what is to prevent twenty, fifty, one hundred such groups from springing up wherever the call is heard—each obedient to its own particular genius, each working in its different way for the coming of the one Kingdom. And

Don't pray for us. Pray with us.

I've heard you say that before: 'I seek the brethren.' But what then?" "You listen.

But I knew that we had really met, she the Catholic from Eastern Europe, I the Protestant from the West. There on the crowded tramway platform we had met as Christians.

The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.

It's time for us to stop playing religious games with God. It's time to get serious. It's no longer good enough just to "believe" in Jesus; we need to become His disciples. Churches should not be places where we come and get the water inside of us drained out. Rather, churches should be staging posts from where living water flows out into the communities and nations of the world.

Real living is living for others.

It was so in the Pequod with the little negro Pippin by nick-name, Pip by abbreviation.

For one's native place is the shell of one's soul, and one's church is the kernel of that nut.

You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.

Modern conveniences grant us more free time to focus on spiritual needs and devote more time to personal service. But the basic element which should never change in the lives of righteous young women is giving service to others.