Quotes about Community

Your friend mourns your losses with you, because they experience them too. The truth is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you're never going through anything alone.

Living among clowns and misanthropists, she probably cannot appreciate a better class of people when she meets them.

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

But at the bottom of all the gloom, there is a sense that we are responsible for each other -- if not for each other's happiness. There is empathy, admiration, respect for the other's intelligence and honesty.

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

Far too often, we have limited the definition of the Church. While not in all cases, in many cases, 'Church' has become an informational, inspirational weekly gathering rather than the group of people that God has ordained from Heaven to operate on his behalf on Earth in order to bring Heaven's viewpoint into history.