Quotes on Community

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.

Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.

If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.

The Lord has blessed you with a testimony of the truth. You have felt His influence and witnessed His power. And if you continue to seek Him, He will continue to grant you sacred experiences. With these and other spiritual gifts, you will be able not only to change your own life for the better but also to bless your homes, wards or branches, communities, cities, states, and nations with your goodness.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.

All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don’t challenge ourselves to actually practice.

As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.

When the female voice is repressed and stifled, the entire community can easily find themselves cut off from the sacred feminine, depriving themselves of the full image of god.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?