Quotes about Community

Need theories can thrive only in a context where the emphasis is on the individual rather than the community and where consumption is a way of life.

Need theories can thrive only in a context where the emphasis is on the individual rather than the community and where consumption is a way of life.

Worship often takes our attention off ourselves completely. It isn't necessary to relate our worship of God to what he has done for us. God is great and worthy of our worship regardless of what he has done for us! Yet, having blessed the name of the Lord together, it strengthens our faith to remember what God has done for us, and also to hear what God is doing in other people.

Imagine how aloneness could gradually be banished.

Once we pray with or for someone, we are in the ongoing story of his life, and it is an honor to be there.

Most gifts emerge in the context of serving people.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.