Quotes about Community

Let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together." Hebrews 10:24—25

To live a distant, withdrawn, and secluded life is diametrically opposed to spirituality as Jesus Christ taught it.

To be a disciple means that we deliberately identify ourselves with God's interests in other people. "That ye love one another; as I have loved you. . . .

We are so involved in the universal purposes of God that immediately we obey God, others are affected

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.

We're all in this together. And every time we judge or think anything less than charitable about anyone, we crucify ourselves. We inflict self-pain.

I am because we are.

As human beings, we are capable of creating a paradise, and making each other's lives better by our own hands. Yes, yes, yes—this is possible.

What I'd like to suggest in this three-day experiment is that all the important stuff you need to know is happening right outside your window, right there in your neighborhood, right in your own heart.

Humans were designed by evolution to live in societies, but they may not understand how societies work.

The path to significance is bigger than the individual.

Is there any way we can get society right if we don't first get the church right? If that is true, then is there any way we can get the church right if we don't first get families right? If that is true, is there any way we can get families right, if we don't first get marriages right? And if that is true, is there any way we can get marriages right if we don't get men right?