Quotes about Community

Ideally, a good pastor wants to empower a congregation to the point where they don't need him. You want everyone to leave feeling better.

If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

I'm very much a people person.

Crime is a subject that needs to be looked at in-depth since the percentage is on the rise.

We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ.

The ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery, are not Churches in the proper sense; however, those who are baptized in these communities are, by Baptism, incorporated in Christ and thus are in a certain communion, albeit imperfect, with the Church.

The time has come for me to say good-bye-or better, 'arrivederci!'. World Youth Day 2011 will take place in Madrid, Spain. Until then, let us continue to pray for one another, and let us joyfully bear witness to Christ before the world.

A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people must git it this soul.

Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons.

Perhaps the most shockingly transcendent thing about the God we worship is that He is pleased to stoop down to us, to draw near, to know us, love us, walk with us, and call us all by name.

The Savior encouraged brotherhood. He was not a long-distance leader. He walked and worked with those whom he led. He was not afraid of close friendships. He spent many hours with his disciples, and his relationships with them were intimate.