3,462 Quotes About Community

If colleges are going to justify themselves, they are going to have to thrive at those things that require physical proximity. That includes moral and spiritual development. Very few of us cultivate our souls as hermits. We do it through small groups and relationships and in social contexts.

For every tree, we plant, we saves a life.

Be the thermostat in your community, the one who makes a change. Not the thermometer who, just watches

It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune.

Adams met with a convention on keeping the Sabbath and found the atmosphere surprisingly similar to that in Congress. Legalistic disputes so abounded that he found it difficult to keep order.

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

In addition to an open heart and open mind, I also brought (to the small group Bible study) an open mouth.

You can't trust us to let you face trouble alone.

Having been fucked up by my family and community, I’ll never know where my gayness came from, and where it ends and “neurosis” begins. But as a gay person I know I’m a vital element in our civilization.