Quotes about Community

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body

We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer?

I loved to teach, I loved my students, but I wanted to find a community. I prayed: "Lord, show me where you want me to go. I will go wanted wherever you call me - but please be clear."

I want you to be a connoisseur of great questions? Here's one - what would we do if we had no money?

To get what you want help others get what they want.

God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it.

In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

Though the world may often appear to be more charitable than the church, it is crucial to remember that, for the church, the care of the poor cannot be separated from the worship of God.

Part of what my work has always been about is to show that the apocalyptic character of the gospel makes the everyday possible. It gives us the time that lets us care for one another as we are ill, helps us care for one another as we experience broken relationships, and helps us take the time to worship God in a world of such violence.

You can win a victory in your neighbourhood. You can win a victory in your school. You can win a victory in your place of worship... Be ashamed of your existence until you've done a little something to make the world in which we all must live a little better than it was when you arrived.