A Quote by Mark Steyn
Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers.
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Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream… Every human wish dream that is injected into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine community and must be banished if genuine community is to survive. He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.
The people who care the most about the folks in your community are living in the community. They don't live in Washington, D.C.
Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community." A community is not an abstract ideal.
And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.
The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.
We live out our call most fully when we are a community of faith with arms wrapped about a community of pain.
That’s the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.
That's the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.
Most rappers are black men. If you're a black man, you owe something to the community that you came from. If you're rapping about the community that you came from, and you're romanticizing parts of it for the entertainment of people who don't look like you, you certainly owe something to the community.
We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club; it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.
In 1984, Jean Vanier invited me me to visit L'Arche community in Trosly, France. He didn't say "We need a priest" or "We could use you." He said, "Maybe our community can offer you a home." I visited several times, then resigned from Harvard and went to live with the community for a year. I loved it! I didn't have much to do. I wasn't pastor or anything. I was just a friend of the Community.
If you would like to live in a community in which you may have pride, then dedicate yourself in a spirit of humility and your responsibilities in that community.
Freedom or community, community or freedom. One must decide the way one wants to live. I chose community.
It's a community event. Community events create strong communities, and a strong community is a healthy community. A healthy community is a happy community.
It's always positive to hear how many people are willing to step up - whether it is the employment community, mental health community, or medical community.
Twitter was an alternative community for me. A different kind of community. I knew I was making people angry. But it didn't matter, they weren't my community. But the longer I was on Twitter and the more I came to know these people, to like and respect them, the more I could see the empathy and grief and sorrow they were expressing.
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