Quotes about Community

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

People don't realize it hurts my feelings when someone looks at my hair or my eyes, and says, 'But you're not actually black. You're black, but you're not black black, because your eyes are green.' I'm like, 'What? No, no, I'm definitely black.' Even some of my closest friends have said that. It's been a bit touchy for me.

I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.

I think there are people who really love the comfort of their small town, and there are people who feel stuck by it.

Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a necessity

People need to understand, we can come together as a nation. We can create a culture of life. More and more young people today are embracing life because we know we are - we're better for it.

How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.

I believe that, we're better when we're moving forward. We're stronger together, so that's what I'm going to be doing.

From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.

Therefore run together as into one temple of God, as to one altar, as to one Jesus Christ, who came forth from one Father, and is with and has gone to one.

The thing that binds us together is the commonality of our dreams, not our skin tone.