Air Quote by Greg Brown

Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love - it…

— Dar Williams

Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and…

— Parker J. Palmer

“Community is like a garden, it is an organic living thing; if it is neglected, it can overgrow with weeds and suffer decline. Communities…

— Cory Bernardi

Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of…

— M. Scott Peck

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, a place of healing and growth . . . When people enter community, especially from a place of loneliness in a big city…

— Jean Vanier

A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define…

— Wendell Berry

When we think of community, we think of some sort of nebulous, faraway group of people rather than the men and the women who…

— Alex Wagner

“Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they…

— Jean Vanier

Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is…

— Jean Vanier

Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.

— Henri Nouwen

“In this day . . . community has come to mean less a geographic neighborhood than a broader, sketchier network of colleagues and kindred spirits.”

— Leah Hager Cohen