Community Quote by Jean Vanier

Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community." A community…

— Jean Vanier

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

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

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] 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

In Community of Caring, we believe the quality of caring we give to our parents, to our brothers and sisters, to our families, to…

— Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes…

— Wendell Berry

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.

— Anthony J. D'Angelo

A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of…

— William Baldwin

“Communities are not built of friends, or of groups of people with similar styles and tastes, or even of people who like and understand…

— Suzanne Goldsmith

A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some…

— Fran Lebowitz

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

— Grace Lee Boggs