#community

Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#image #morality #life

And yet I cannot be myself. You teach me all these things and then you put me here to pretend to be something I am not, while she is center stage, doing exactly what she does. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#life

If you don't have a whole lot of unsatisfied people, the economy stops dead, doesn't it? ↗

— Andy Couturier

#economy #japan #money #society #money

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

— Robert K. Greenleaf

#elderly #ethics #respect #trust #youth

The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate theoretical truths. The function of the well-intentioned individuals in association is to live in accordance with those truths, to demonstrate what happens when theory is translated into practice, to create small-scale working models of the better form of society to which the speculative idealist looks forward. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#ends-and-means #social-living #nature

As an introverted person, I struggle even writing about community because I know how difficult it often is for me to walk across the room to converse with people. People often drain the energy out of me, and too often I prefer to protect myself rather than engage in relationships with people. For some of us who are more extroverted, community is a way of life, yet I wonder how intentional even the most extroverted person is about making community a holiness-shaping thing. Community with God’s people ultimately shapes us to reflect more of who God is. ↗

— Tyler Braun

#relationship

When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified. ↗

— Pearl Abraham

#justification #religion #status-quo #religion

Risin up, when you’re weak, makes a person stronger. By standin, thery’re saying that [she] matters, and they matter too. I feel better when I think about how showin respect to one person makes every person makes every person worth more. ↗

— Todd Johnson

#strength #respect

Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#community #talk #growth

If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#country #i #make #million #our