Community Quotes - Page 26

• It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.

  Rowan Williams

  Christian, Heart, Humanity

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• Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.

  William Robertson Smith

  Men, Political, Soul

  William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.29, Transaction Publishers

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• There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.

  Tom Petty

  Integrity, Real, Rocks

  "Tom Petty: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. October 2, 2017.

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• I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.

  Dick Wolf

  Work, Strikes, Members

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• This is an effort to have government coerce, force speech and behavior. And it's being pushed and advocated by the gay community. This is their ultimate goal. It's to not allow for diversity of opinion on this issue, because they don't want to be celebrated, they want to force everyone to not only agree with them but also have to finance their agenda.

  Michele Bachmann

  Gay, Pride, Issues

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• I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Gay, Icons, Position

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• I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

  Adam Rickitt

  Home, Thinking, What Matters

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• It is only through the power of association that those of any calling exercise due influence in their communities.

  Elihu Root

  Exercise, Calling, Association

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• We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin training people in the green-collar work of the future - things like solar-panel installation, retrofitting buildings that are leaking energy, wastewater reclamation, organic food, materials reuse and recycling.

  Van Jones

  Work, School, College

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• The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as the study of life at the level of the individual-of what plants and animals do, how they react to each other and their environment, how they are organized into larger groupings like populations and communities.

  Marston Bates

  Science, Animal, Thinking

  Marston Bates (2014). “The Nature of Natural History”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.

  Arthur Ashe

  Athlete, Black, Television

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• You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. And when you think about why, in the African American community at least, there's a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it's important to recognize that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn't go away.

  Barack Obama

  Pain, Son, Thinking

  " 'Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago', Obama says" by Paul Lewis, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2013.

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• The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

  Judith Light

  Pride, Gay, Years

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• Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a bond stronger than sexual union can create, deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love. Friendship makes all of life shine brightly.

  Henri Nouwen

  Fate, Giving, Goal

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• True happiness comes only through sharing in the trials and successes of other persons and of our community. Hence it is essential that any true conception of happiness contain the promise of full commitment to the life of the society.

  Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

  Commitment, Promise, Essentials

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• It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating anything will not make much difference. You can be a vegetarian and cruel to the extreme, and violent; you can be a non-vegetarian and kind and loving. Food will not make much difference. In India there are communities who have lived totally with vegetarian food; many Brahmins have lived totally with vegetarian food. They are non-violent but they are not spiritual.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Vegetarianism, Differences

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• Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur.

  Vincent de Paul

  Leadership, Majority, Lax

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves. ... In short, mathematics only exists in a living community of mathematicians that spreads understanding and breathes life into ideas both old and new.

  William Thurston

  Math, Ideas, Understanding

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• Mrs. Jo did not mean the measles, but that more serious malady called love, which is apt to ravage communities, spring and autumn, when winter gayety and summer idleness produce whole bouquets of engagements, and set young people to pairing off like the birds.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Summer, Spring, Mean

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.674, ShandonPress

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• Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code - a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people-or, rather, there aren't any right people.

  B. F. Skinner

  Hands, People, Technique

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.153, Hackett Publishing

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• Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay and Christian across denominations is at once timely, smart, poignant, disturbing, inspiring, and maddening. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about the rights of the LGBTQ community to be treated as equal citizens at every level, including the religious-which means it should be essential reading for everybody.

  Donna Freitas

  Christian, Religious, Attitude

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• I always tell our community that we should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated. It's certainly never our goal to frustrate, but it is worth noting that the people who were constantly agitated were the self-righteous, religious elite, the rich, and the powerful. But the people who were fascinated by him, by his love and grace, were folks who were already wounded and ostracized — folks who didn't have much to lose, who already knew full well that they were broken and needed a Savior.

  Shane Claiborne

  Religious, Jesus, Powerful

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.133, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

  Ani DiFranco

  People, Marginalized

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• Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.

  Donna Brazile

  Jesus, People, Roles

  "Millions Insulted by Liberals' Use of Jesus Christ/Pontius Pilate Line". Interview with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 12, 2008.

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• Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him or her and that person will play "ting." That might seem so insignificant, but in the conception of the composer something irreplaceable would be lost to the total beauty of the symphony if that "ting" did not happen.

  Desmond Tutu

  Play, Symphony, Would Be

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