Quotes about Community

He had been taught that bread unshared is bread unblessed when someone else is hungry, whether man or beast, friend or stranger.

We must make friends in prosperity, if we would have their help in adversity.

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

In a very real and sobering way, we must actually become the gospel to the people around us—an expression of the real Jesus through the quality of our lives.

It is only when the people of God as a whole are activated in a movement that real world transformation takes place.

In essence, the apostle is the one who is most likely to facilitate the emergence of communitas, a particular kind of community that is shaped and formed around a challenge or compelling task.

So a working definition of missional church is a community of God's people that defines itself, and organizes its life around, its real purpose of being an agent of God's mission to the world. In other words, the church's true and authentic organizing principle is mission.

I think that the best part of music is when it comes from a real place and has an ability to kind of connect on a much larger scale. It no longer is a personal thing, it becomes everyone else's thing as well.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

I was the second-youngest child in a family that took up the better part of an entire pew at our Baptist church.

I want to have a lot to do with winning a championship or bringing a championship back to the city of Philadelphia.