Community Quote by Joanna Brooks Download Open image ““Religion is about responsibility to a community and a tradition ...”” — Joanna Brooks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Culture Religion Responsibility
“Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all.” — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“Religion and tradition remain allies in a system that's still perceived to be fair.” — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“A religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends, myths or any type of literary device in order to establish a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“religions understand that to belong to a community is both very desirable and not very easy.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Religion is an individual experience of a universal mind and universal experience of an individual mind.” — Ajmal Siddiqi Copy Share Image
“Religion serves no purpose except to funnel money and power away from those who need it and leaves in its wake nothing but broken… — David Silverman Copy Share Image
“Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.” — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“But we do believe in religion—at least for other people. It is a means of marketing hope, and of instilling ethical precepts on the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people.” — Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney Copy Share Image
“Religion is what gives a person hope to keep walking even in the darkest times.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Who watches over us when we leave? Who remembers our names when disappear ourselves from home? Who hears the absence of our voices? Who… — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid. — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children? — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
I am not the same kind of Mormon girl I was when I was seven, eight, or eighteen years old. I am not an… — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
“This is a church of tenderness and arrogance, of sparkling differences and human failings. There is no unmixing the two.” — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
“After many years of confusion, she will come home to a house she chose herself, with a man she chose herself, a man whose… — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
“I can’t go on like this, I told myself. And You can’t possibly want me to feel this way, I demanded of God. God didn’t… — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
“I said "it is my first language, my mother tongue, my family, my people, my home; it is my heart, my heart, my heart."… — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
“How is it we come through the most difficult miles? Do we come silent or singing? Do we come in company, or do we… — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
“You see that? That big messy spiral of people, moving, trying to find God? I ask them, as the exodus unfolds once again on… — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
How badly I wanted to belong as I had when I was a young Mormon girl, to be simply a working part in the… — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image