Quotes about Community

With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion - for folks outside of the community - of what Black Lives Matter means. It's really about saying that black lives matter: that humanity is the same when you go inside people's homes.

When I chose to run for public office, I pledged to stand with the people of Nevada rather than follow a partisan line.

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends.

Public service is about serving all the people, including the ones who are not like you.

I feel that public service is so important and giving back, being a role model and helping people in need is something that I would love to do.

I'm not in public service, nor do I ever plan to be, but I give back in my own way.

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

We are constantly learning and growing and changing. We are really an experiment. We are endeavoring to discover if a community of faith can exist purely for the good of others.

Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along.

I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.

Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.