Quotes about Community

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

Focus on serving others. ... No matter what is going on around us, we can attend to the people in front of us, to the issues confronting us and there, we offer what we can. We can offer insight and compassion. We can be present. We can stay and not flee. We can be exemplars of the best human qualities. That is a life well lived, even if we didn't save the world.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

We stand before a burning bush whenever other human beings share with us something of their relationship with God or something of the movements of their hearts. In such moments may we always realize that we stand on holy ground

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear.

One of the things I've done personally is bring my girlfriends into my health and fitness journeys.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.