Community Quote by Wayne Jacobsen

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

Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.

— L. Ron Hubbard

“The call of community isn't about finding people just like us, or at the exclusion of any people. Community in the biblical sense is…

— Hugh Halter & Matt Smay

God chooses community sometimes to bear an unfair burden to force us to rise to the next level of consciousness and understanding.

— Van Jones

Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream… Every human wish dream that is injected…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God's idea of redemption is community-shaped.

— Scot McKnight

Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow…

— Henri Nouwen

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

— Jean Vanier

“Community as caring . . . Some communities - which are more groupings or sects - tend to suppress individual conscience in the interest…

— Jean Vanier

“As an introverted person, I struggle even writing about community because I know how difficult it often is for me to walk across the…

— Tyler Braun

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

“Urging the need for community upon American religionists is a vain enterprise; the experiential encounter with Jesus or God is too overwhelming for memories…

— Harold Bloom