Quotes by Community The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor. Philip Yancey independencecommunitymeaningful To this day, at my relatively advanced age, I still don't have a place I can really call home. I've never bought property. I just move between temporary base camps. I know that the very notion of home, of having a family or community, is a hard one for me to embrace. Pico Iyer communityhomemoving What we say here every day is that our success is really based on our members' success, our community's success. We've created an infrastructure and laid some basic ground rules to create this marketplace. Pierre Omidyar infrastructurememberscommunity I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. Pinchas Lapide sundaycommunityeaster The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens. Pierre Trudeau communitybrothermen It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know a lot about that and honor it in the work. Piper Perabo communityplaycharacter The Canadian community must invest, for the defence and better Pierre Trudeau communityappreciationcountry Research students are numbered in the hundreds of thousands-soon to be millions -and they are no longer distributed superficially and at random over the globe, but are functionally linked together in a vast organic system that will remain in the future indispensable to the life of the community. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin communityresearchtogether Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts. Plato citizenscommunityplay Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor. Pope Francis promotioncommunitychristian The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles. Plato richescommunityprinciples The command to the Twelve to go out and proclaim the Good News is also valid for all Christians, though in a different way.... the Good News of the kingdom which is coming and which has begun is meant for all people of all times. Those who have received the Good News and who have been gathered by it into the community of salvation can and must communicate and spread it. Pope Paul VI communitychristianpeople The relationship between individuals or communities and the environment ultimately stems from their relationship with God. When ‘man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. Pope Benedict XVI communitymenorder One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry Pope Pius XI communitychallengesinspire The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself. Pope Paul VI communityreligiousmen It is absolutely necessary that the Christian community be subject in all things to the Sovereign Pontiff if it wishes to be a part of the divinely-established society founded by our Redeemer. Pope Pius XII communitychristianwish The evangelization of the person and of human communities depends totally on this encounter with Jesus Christ. Pope Benedict XVI encounterscommunityjesus Do we open ourselves to the Holy Spirit, so as to be an active part of our communities, or do we close in on ourselves, saying 'I have so many things to do, that's not my job'? Pope Francis communityspiritjobs May every Church and Christian community be a place of mercy amid so much indifference. Pope Francis communitychurchchristian The family, as the fundamental and essential educating community, is the privileged means for transmitting the religious and cultural values which help the person to acquire his or her own identity. Founded on love and open to the gift of life, the family contains in itself the very future of society; its most special task is to contribute effectively to a future of peace. Pope John Paul II communityreligiousmean«140141142143144145146147148149150»
