Quotes about Community

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

I might have known," said Eeyore. "After all, one can't complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said 'Bother!'. The Social Round. Always something going on.

I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said 'Bother!' The Social Round. Always something going on.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for the others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Democracy is not something you believe in or hang your hat on, but something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles and falls. If you participate, the future is yours.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ's Church to one's own little community. It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.

For whatever sets in motion societal activity originates in the intimate communal living of families in the same village or hamlet, in the same region or country.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

Anything you can do that connects believers with one another engages the church to go the next level, which keeps the pastor from being burnt out, which therefore keeps him in the ministry.

I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.