3,462 Quotes About Community

They didn't get the friendships that formed, the community of people who shared in your same joy.

For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don’t have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community

Speaking in Creation's tongues, hearing Creation's voices, the boundary of our soul expands. Earth has many voices. Those who understand that Earth is a living being know this because they have translated themselves to the humble grasses and old trees. They know that Earth is a community that is constantly talking to itself; a communicating universe. And whether we know it or not, we are participating in the web of this community.

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

How you perceive others is your reality about them, and the same is true for them of you.

Believers can search the Scriptures on their own, and allow the Word of God, coinciding with the Holy Spirit, to enlighten their understanding, and open their spiritual eyes.

All believers need to become teachers, shepherds, ministers, and good-news-bearers.

God never taught us to live like TV DINNERS in a freezer: Together, but totally separate. #community

A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.