Quotes about Community

The lack of moral character is the number one problem in the black community today

LAZY AND IRRESPONSIBLE This isn't a politically correct position to have, but I'm convinced that the lack of moral character in many black men is the primary cause of the breakdown of the black family, high crime rates, domestic violence, and other social problems within the black community.

Black women are acting irresponsibly by giving birth to baby after baby out of wedlock. Most of these children are from different fathers as well.

the Church should be the place where a word reverberates right into the world.

the older and younger Blumhardt and their friends. There would have been something significant to learn—as later developments prove—from the books of Friedrich Zündel, for example.

Theology must have the character of a living procession.

The area of the Church stands in the world, as outwardly the Church stands in the village or in a city, beside the school, the cinema and the railway station. The Church's language cannot aim at being an end in itself. It must be made clear that the Church exists for the sake of the world, that the light is shining in the darkness.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.

The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps