Quotes about Community

Corporate worship is to be God-centered.

Corporate worship is to be intelligible.

Corporate worship is to be seeker sensible.

Corporate worship is to be unselfish.

Corporate worship is to be missional.

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Any polis which is truly so called, and is not merely one in name, must devote itself to the end of encouraging goodness. Otherwise, political association sinks into a mere alliance.

And to the truth of this testimony is borne by what takes place in communities: because the law-givers make the individual members good men by habituation, and this is the intention certainly of every law-giver, and all who do not effect it well fail of their intent; and herein consists the difference between a good Constitution and a bad.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they do need friendship in addition; and in the realm of the just things, the most just seems to be what involves friendship.

The London criminal is certainly a dull fellow. Look out of this window, Watson. See how the figures loom up, are dimly seen, and then blend once more into the cloudbank. The thief or the murderer could roam London on such a day as the tiger does the jungle, unseen until he pounces, and then evident only to his victim. There have been numerous petty thefts. This great and sombre stage is set for something more worthy than that. It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.