Quotes about Community
If one by one we counted people outFor the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.
- Robert Frost
The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.
- Erwin McManus
My liberty depends on you being free, too.
- Barack Obama
What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.
- GK Chesterton
Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
- Timothy Keller
There is a brotherhood within the body of believers, and the Lord Jesus Christ is the common denominator. Friendship and fellowship are the legal tender among believers.
- J. Vernon McGee
Christianity, sharing the Christian faith, in common, gives you instant friendship, and that is the remarkable thing, because it transcends culture.
- John Lennox
Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.
- Aristotle
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.
- Anne Lamott
There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.
- Nelson Mandela
Choose your friends carefully, for you will tend to be like them and be found where they choose to go.
- Thomas Monson
Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.
- Cicero