Quotes about Community
No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.
- John 4:12
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
- Euripides
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
- Mark Twain
In love of home, the love of country has its rise.
- Charles Dickens
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.
- CS Lewis
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
- Charles Swindoll
Love is the only cement that can hold this broken community together.When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs fo my brothers.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one.
- Mother Teresa
Love has a hem to her garment that reaches the very dust. It sweeps the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.
- Mother Teresa