We need a true national and global vision and the belief that we can do great things and embrace a wider range of human experience. We need a new deal, a new frontier, and great society. Tax breaks for the wealthy, white privilege, mass deportation, gun lust, fewer...
Give freely of yourself always to your family, your friends, your community, and your country. The world will pay you back many times over.
Ever present God, you called us to be in relationship with one another and promised to dwell wherever two or three are gathered. In our community, we are many different people; we come from many different places, have many different cultures. Open our hearts that we...
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us...
There is a huge difference in a community where people live alongside each other, and one where people live among each other. Jesus came to live among us, not just alongside us. Jesus "made his dwelling among us" (John 1:14).
I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.
This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of...
The person who's in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.
The Church is not to be a national community like the old Israel, but a community of believers without political or national ties.
What we had done was to seek out, in our chosen home community, those things that were the most meaningful to us. We realized that it is all too easy to ignore the natural beauty and simple pleasure right around us and to complain instead about dull surroundings or...