Quotes by Community Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be. Jean Vanier communitywantpeople One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals. Jean Vanier communitypeopleway A community which refuses to welcome - whether through fear, weariness, insecurity, a desire to cling to comfort, or just because it is fed up with visitors - is dying spiritually. Jean Vanier insecuritycommunitydying It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into ourselves, that we can fully live the life of community. Jean Vanier live-lifesupportcommunity People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor. Jean Vanier communitymaypeople People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition. Jean Vanier communitylonelinesspeople The response to war is to live like brothers and sisters. The response to injustice is to share. The response to despair is a limitless trust and hope. The response to prejudice and hatred is forgiveness. To work for community is to work for humanity. To work for peace is to work for a true political solution; it is to work for the Kingdom of God. It is to work to enable every one to live and taste the secret joys of the human person united to the eternal. Jean Vanier communitybrotherwar A community is only a community when the majority of its members are making the transition from 'the community for myself' to 'myself for the community'. Jean Vanier majoritytransitioncommunity Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community. Jean Vanier communitydivineexercise Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper. Jean Vanier communitypeoplemoving 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 communitytalkingpeople I've spent a lot of time in my political life talking about why it matters to have women in the decision making, whether it's at the family table, whether it's in a board room, whether it's in the halls of Congress, whether it's in your community meeting. And it has to do with the fact that women's lives are different. You know? They're not better or worse than men's, but they are different and we bring that different perspective to whatever we do. And it's important to have that perspective at the table. Jeanne Shaheen perspectivepoliticalcommunity Machines help us do things more quickly and efficiently, but they can also destroy some community activities. Machines can also throw the weakest people out of work and this would be sad, because their small contribution to the housework or cooking is their way of giving something to the community. People who are capable of doing things very quickly with the help of machines become tremendously busy, always active, in charge of everyone - a bit like machines themselves. Jean Vanier communitygivingpeople A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and above all of listening to the poor, and a community life through which all its members can grow in their own gift. Jean Vanier communityprayerlistening Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession. Jean-Jacques Rousseau constitutioncommunitygiving A community that is growing rich and seeks only to defend its goods and its reputation is dying. It has ceased to grow in love. A community is alive when it is poor and its members feel they have to work together and remain united, if only to ensure that they can all eat tomorrow! Jean Vanier communitydyingworking-together True peace can rarely be imposed from the outside; it must be born within and between communities through meetings and dialogue and then carried outward. Jean Vanier dialogueborncommunity An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. Henry David Thoreau communitydoemen I'm also particularly pleased that there is bipartisan support to include the input of border communities. Not only will security be strengthened according to Washington, D.C., but border communities will have a say as well. Jeff Flake immigrationsupportcommunity Two people can form a community by excluding a third. Jean-Paul Sartre communitytwopeople«7980818283848586878889»
