Quotes about Community

Once, while visiting the continent, Spurgeon was asked about the secret of his ministry. After a moment s pause Mr. Spurgeon said, "My people pray for me.

We humans have never had the resources in ourselves to love each other well across ethnic lines. There is too much selfishness in all of us.

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

Expose yourself to Bible-saturated people, both the living and the dead. Their lives and their words are a great help to our joy.

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.

I look upon the world as my parish.

The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

There is no such thing as a solitary Christian.

October 6, 1774 I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.

I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions.

I pity those who can find no good at church. But how should they if prejudice come between, an effectual bar to the grace of God?