Quotes about Community

The hunger problem is not going to be solved by government or by industry but in church, among Christians who learn a different way to pursue happiness.

I'll call nobodies and make them somebodies; I'll call the unloved and make them beloved. In the place where they yelled out, 'You're nobody!' they're calling you 'God's living children.

It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends.

It is a good thing to be rich, and it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved of many friends.

For me, the idea of releasing a free record is powerful if everybody gets it for free at the same time.

Religions prosper in large part because of the communities that they create.

Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations how we can incarnate the gospel in our community, or we will preach to a religious ghetto.

It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

The effect of reparations would be among the most devastating the country and the black community have ever experienced.

We are a people who have learned repeatedly throughout our history that economic distress can help us to appreciate that there are other ways to be rich that are not financial or even material.

Christians historically have believed wrong on issues. Take slavery: they believed wrong on that issue for generations, and it had, just, repercussions that were staggeringly negative for our culture and my community. So it is possible to be Christian and to believe wrongly and practice wrongly.