Quotes about Community

What thing is so pleasant, and what so profitable, as to talk of the things of God?

He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.

For if one Father is common to us all, and every good thing that can fall to our lot comes from Him, there ought not to be anything separate among us that we are not prepared gladly and wholeheartedly to share with one another, as far as occasion requires.

The true structure of the church is the Kingdom of God, and this is neither frail nor like a tent in any way.

The proper use, then, of all the good gifts we have received is the free and generous sharing of those gifts with others.

There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbor.

For every family of the pious ought to be a church.

For access to the church of God was open to the Gentiles who were to take the place left empty by the Jews.

WE WILL MEET many difficulties as we try to dutifully seek the good of our neighbors. We won't make any headway in this regard unless we lay aside concern for ourselves—indeed, unless we somehow lay aside our very self.

For unquestionably nothing is more opposed to the law of God than sects, for in it is communicated the truth of God, which is the bond of unity.

The church is compared to tents because it has no solid structure in the world.

Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.