Community Quotes - Page 24

• God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.

  Dallas Willard

  Creation, Aim, Glorious

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• He looked at the book, took my name, and consulted his records. Then he informed me I had been lost at sea and was dead. Under the circumstances, he could not possibly give me any money... Even the fact that he was dealing with someone who had been dead for several days failed to awaken interest in his official heart.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Book, Heart, Sea

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• A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.70, SCM Press

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• To embody a new paradigm of civilization - to learn to think like a planet in order to heal and nurture a planet - is not a typical hero's task. It is more the task of a gardener. The planet does not offer us challenges to be overcome to prove our worth or individuality; it presents us with a community to understand, a community with disparate needs and identities that are nonetheless intertwined in mutual dependencies.

  David Spangler

  Hero, Future, Thinking

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• It is not easy to conceive of anything that would be more unfortunate in a community based upon the ideals of which Americans boast than any considerable development of intolerance as regards religion.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Church, Would Be, Development

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• I just know when you do good things, it helps other people and makes you feel good... I don't think I'm a goody-goody for one second, but I believe that helping people was the right way to be. And you just gave someone else a hand up, help them up and they'll come back and help you if you need it.

  Gabi Hollows

  Believe, Helping Others, Thinking

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• The persistent appetite for human beings for community is what we should all be dedicated to.

  Bob Maguire

  Should, Appetite, Dedicated

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• Simple old-fashioned values that come from a sense of community are the key to a great society. I believe we all have that sense from childhood memories, when life was simple. It's those memories that should drive us to reflect on our values.

  Lindsay Fox

  Memories, Believe, Simple

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• I am confident there is a cause for everyone. Think of how you can contribute; we all have different skills.

  Simon McKeon

  Thinking, Skills, Causes

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• His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Irrelevance, Remarkable, Response

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• There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it was when we came into it.

  Aga Khan IV

  Islamic, World, Interpretation

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• It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Reason, Redress, Broads

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• What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.

  Win Butler

  People, Missing, Church

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• I hope I have repaid Australia for the humanity it showed me, as it has shown to so many others over the years.

  John Yu

  Years, Australia, Humanity

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• When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Rights, Government, Competition

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• Commitment, by its nature, frees us from ourselves and, while it stands us in opposition to some, it joins us with others similarly committed. Commitment moves us from the mirror trap of the self absorbed with the self to the freedom of a community of shared values.

  Michael Lewis

  Moving, Commitment, Mirrors

  Michael Lewis (1995). “Shame: The Exposed Self”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they've known it all along.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Three, Phases

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• You can keep it to yourself, but you could also call a support team like the team at MS LifeLines. They are there to support the MS community and give good advice.

  Teri Garr

  Team, Giving, Support

  "Multiple Sclerosis". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 2, 2004.

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• Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a childs soul.”• “Play is the highest level of child development . . . It gives . . . joy, freedom, contentment, inner and outer rest, peace with the world . . . The plays of childhood are the germinal leaves of all later life.”• “Children are like tiny flowers; they are varied and need care, but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the community of peers.

  Friedrich Frobel

  Beautiful, Children, Flower

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• It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and
  requirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification

  Albert Einstein

  Ideas, Individuality, Important

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.434, Princeton University Press

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• If u desire to grow in your relationship w God - don't do it alone. Find a community of people heading in the same direction.

  Andy Mineo

  People, Desire, Our Relationship

  FaceBook post by Andy Mineo from Feb 23, 2014

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• Americans whisper the word Alzheimer's because their government whispers the word Alzheimer's. And although a whisper is better than the silence that the Alzheimer's community has been facing for decades, it's still not enough. It needs to be yelled and screamed to the point that it finally gets the attention and the funding that it deserves and needs.

  Seth Rogen

  Alzheimer's, Government, Silence

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• The times in my life when I have been most happy haven't been the times when I have had the most money or the most freedom or the most anything, but rather when I've been in love or in community or right with people.

  Donald Miller

  People, Been In Love, Havens

  Donald Miller (2004). “Searching for God Knows What”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's been missing from the conversation. This is a great time to go to the next step and ask, well, who's going to do the work? Who's going to invest in the new technologies? What are ways to get communities wealth, improved health, and expanded job opportunities out of this improved transition?

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Work, Technology

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• The evidence about Saddam having actual biological and chemical weapons, as opposed to the capability to develop them, has turned out to be wrong. I acknowledge that and accept it. I simply point out, such evidence was agreed by the whole international community, not least because Saddam had used such weapons against his own people and neighbouring countries.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Iraq, People

  "Blair's speech" by Andrew Sparrow, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 29, 2004.

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