Quotes about Community
When I was 20, I moved up to Boston with my girlfriend, who's now my wife. She went to grad school, and I met a bunch of cool friends there.
- Kurt Vile
There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.
- Paul Hoffman
America is a giving nation and very compassionate.
- David Wilkerson
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
- Edmund Burke
I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
- Wendell Berry
You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.
- Frederick Buechner
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.
- Frederick Buechner
in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all.
- Frederick Buechner
The life thatI touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
- Frederick Buechner
In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us.
- Frederick Buechner
To love your neighbor is to see your neighbor. To see somebody, really to see somebody, you have to love somebody.
- Frederick Buechner
We're all, by and large, comparatively speaking, rich people and have perhaps more than one home. And yet the question is, are we really at home anywhere? Are we really at home in any of our homes? Because it seems to me that to be at home somewhere means to be at peace somewhere and I have a feeling at some deep level there can really be no peace for any of us, no real home for any of us, until there is some measure of real peace for everybody until everybody has a home.
- Frederick Buechner