Quotes about Community

Neighbors broke the news that my parents had been taken away by immigration officers, and just like that, my stable family life was over.

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.

I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.

Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.

Home is where they don't want to kill you," Jack said.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others. --- Charles James's Diary

The surest way to minimize your own burdens is to carry someone else's.

Unfortunately, large cities don't have a monopoly on loneliness. It can be found in small towns as well. Loneliness can be found everywhere there are people.

There are two ways of being strong: one is pushing people down, the other is pulling people up.

I believe that the difference between Heaven and Hell is not so much the climate as the company.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others.

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.