Quotes about Community
Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.
- Miroslav Volf
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.
- Miroslav Volf
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
- Miroslav Volf
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
- Mortimer Adler
Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
- Mother Teresa
If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
- Mother Teresa
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
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody.
- Mother Teresa
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
- Mother Teresa