Quotes about Community

I'm in what feels like a pretty transparent fishbowl as mayor. People see you at the market, people see you at the diner, people see you wherever you are, talk to you. You don't shave, they're taking selfies of you. You come back from your jog, they're talking to you.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Every city is a living body.

Human friendship also is endeared with a sweet tie, by reason of the unity formed of many souls.

O sons of Peace, sons of the One Catholic [Church], walk in your way, and sing as you walk. Travelers do this in order to keep up their spirits.

In this one man, the whole Church has been assumed by the Word.

The members of Christ, many though they be, are bound to one another by the ties of charity and peace under the one Head, who is our Saviour Himself, and form one man. Often their voice is heard in the Psalms as the voice of one man; the cry of one is as the cry of all, for all are one in One.

He no more wished to speak alone than He wished to exist alone, since He says: Behold, I am with you all days, unto the consummation of the world (Matt. 28:20). If He is with us, then He speaks in us, He speaks of us, and He speaks through us; and we too speak in Him.

Though absent from our eyes, Christ our Head is bound to us by love. Since the whole Christ is Head and body, let us so listen to the voice of the Head that we may also hear the body speak.

For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

A brother who's helped by a brother is like a strong city.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.