3,462 Quotes About Community

We’re the ones that have always been excluded, afraid to be ourselves. And now what? We get our own scene and start pushing people to the sidelines? Does that make sense? Fuck that. Fuck being as small as they are. Be big. Be bigger than them.

For me the very essence of the Person-Centred Approach is about individuality, which leads to a community of acceptance characterised by difference.

It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.

People are living books. The real library of life is community.

Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam's fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.

You can become the greatest personality in your community by developing the sagacity of humility, teachability, prosperity-mentality and accountability.

A Christian atmosphere is no protection against preening egos.

God loves the church with a love too deep for human imagination: He loves her with all His infinite heart. Therefore let her sons be of good courage; she cannot be far from prosperity.