Quotes about Community

God put us here to go through this kind of mental gymnastics, and He certainly put us here to enjoy our sexual lives. He put us here to ask, to try and find out the best way possible to live with our neighbors. Of course, you can go through a life not asking, and that's the tragedy: so many lives lived in moral blindness.

Life in community with broken people will always include such disappointments. But they can be met with resilience, and with a faith in the eternal significance of a life lived with the suffering. Such a life will never be easy or tidy; the work is endless and will always stretch on before us.

If the way of spiritual childhood became general, who does not see how easily would be realized the reformation of human society...

Radicalism was thriving among all groups except the Catholics. I felt out of it all. There was Catholic membership in all these groups of course, but no Catholic leadership.

No one is free until all of us are free.

Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.

The Sneetches got really quite smart on that day. The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches. And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches. That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars and whether they had one, or not, upon thars.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

Make your life about something bigger than your life.

There is no joy in life like the joy of sharing.