Community Quote by Jean Vanier

By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.

— Anonymous

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

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

— Grace Lee Boggs

Life in community is no less than a necessity for us, an inescapable ‘must’all life created by God exists in communal order and works…

— Eberhard Arnold

“Community as openness . . . Communities are truly communities when they open to others, when they remain vulnerable and humble; when the members…

— Jean Vanier

A sense of community has always been important to me. I understood very early that I could not grow as an artist or as…

— Jerry Pinkney

“Community as caring . . . So many people enter groups in order to develop a certain form of spirituality or to acquire knowledge…

— Jean Vanier

“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

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

Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer its primary…

— Henri Nouwen

“A community is only being created when its members accept that they are not going to achieve great things, that they are not going…

— Jean Vanier

“For instance, prayer is a wall that keeps us in a right relationship with God, community keeps us in a right relationship with others…

— Robert A. Fryling