Quotes about Community

I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs.

All that matters is what we do for each other.

It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing,we do for others.

For the Congregation this new movement involves the danger of learning to think that the Services are done for them; and that their bodily presence is all they need contribute. And, for Clergy and Congregation alike, it involves the danger of regarding these elaborate Services as ends in themselves, and of forgetting that they are simply means, and the very hollowest of mockeries, unless they bear fruit in our lives.

I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak. (Ezek. 34:16)

We do not fight to tear down but to build up.

When God decided this world needed you, He created a village to surround you, and His presence is ever with you.

Solitude is sometimes best society.

It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.

The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.