Quotes about Community
You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.
- William Booth
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
- Charles Dickens
Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.
- Henri Nouwen
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
- Teresa of Avila
In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.
- Henri Nouwen
We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.
- John Stott
Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.
- Girolamo Savonarola
Jesus never says to the poor: 'come find the church', but he says to those of us in the church: 'go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.
- Tony Campolo
The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.
- Alexander Hamilton
The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.
- David Platt
If evangelism isn't an expression of love of neighbor, it isn't Christian evangelizing. And love of neighbor includes not only what I say to the neighbor but how I say that.
- Miroslav Volf
The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
- Brennan Manning