Character Quote by Frederick Douglass

“To really belong to one another and to depend on one another–to really share a common destiny–is difficult for a community that wants to…

— N. Gordon Cosby

Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but…

— Henri Nouwen

Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.

— Henri Nouwen

Community is where humility and glory touch.

— Henri Nouwen

We are individual designs in the fabric of life. We have our own integrity, but simultaneously we are part of the fabric, connected to…

— Tom Atlee

The earth community, the Life Community, is not the property of any one religion or group or part of the world; it is the…

— David Spangler

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick,…

— Elie Wiesel

We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes…

— John Winthrop

It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled…

— Joan D. Chittister

“Authentic community will undoubtedly be marked by conflict, risk, and rejection. At the same time it offers the deepest levels of acceptance, intimacy, and…

— David Timms

Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the…

— Parker J. Palmer

“Each of us has a personal mission and role to fulfil, a unique sacred destiny which we alone have chosen to experience at this…

— Les Price