Quotes about Community
The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
- Helen Keller
The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.
- Simon Sinek
Friends create the world anew each day. Without their loving care, courage would not suffice to keep heartsstrong for life.
- Helen Keller
Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.
- Paulo Coelho
You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
- Timothy Keller
Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.
- Jerry B. Jenkins
A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.
- Jerry Bridges
It is clear from our Lord's prayer that He does not intend for us to withdraw from contact with the world of non-Christians (John 17:15). Instead, He said we are to be 'the salt of the earth' and 'the light of the world' (Matthew 5:13-14).
- Jerry Bridges
This is fellowship: sharing with one another what God is teaching through the Scriptures, and this is an important part of true community.
- Jerry Bridges
It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.
- Jerry Bridges
Biblical community, then, incorporates this idea of an active partnership in the promotion of the gospel and the building up of believers.
- Jerry Bridges
Without this relationship with God, there can be no spiritual relationship with one another.
- Jerry Bridges