Quotes about Community

The Indian himself must be the answer—he must learn the Scriptures, be taught, and in turn teach his own people. To this end Pete and Jim reopened the missionary school at Shandia that Dr. Tidmarsh had been forced to close. Here in a one-room schoolhouse the youngsters of the community were taught to read and write so that ultimately they could read the Scriptures for themselves.

A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won't want to gossip.

The goodness you receive from God is a treasure for you to share with others.

Each Christian comes from a different background, upbringing, lineage, and environment. But in Christ we are unified.

Harmony is produced in ministry when everyone seeks to be a servant.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.

The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact that these are not widely shared outside the Christian or theistic community is interesting but fundamentally irrelevant.

When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.

As a result of the absence and weakness of black men, blacks have allowed every ungodly thing to influence their communities.