Quotes about Community

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

Christ has not come with a blueprint for political arrangements; many kinds of political arrangements are compatible with the Christian faith, from monarchy to democracy. But in a pluralistic context, Christ's command "in everything do to others as you would have them do to you" (Matt. 7:12) entails that Christians grant to other religious communities the same religious and political freedoms that they claim for themselves.

In the minds of most people, Christianity is supposed to be about love of God and neighbor (even though it is true that at the heart of Christianity does not lie human love at all, but God's love for humanity24

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

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.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.