“Our power as individuals is multiplied when we gather together as families, teams, and communities with common goals.”

“Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.”

“We are all inexorably wound together as individuals, as families, as communities, and as a society. We must take care to value, accommodate, and, at times, assist the variety and diversity, each unique facet, in the noble work - the blessed art - of family.”

“With sharing our common purpose we multiply and with keeping to ourselves we divide. ”

“Tolerence ought to be humanities community and knowledge should be an individuals goal.”

“Family is the one human institution we have no choice over. We get in simply by being born, and as a result we are involuntarily thrown together with a menagerie of strange and unlike people. Church calls for another step: to voluntarily choose to band together with a strange menagerie because of a common bond in Jesus Christ. I have found that such a community more resembles a family than any other human institution. Henri Nouwen once defined a community as “a place where the person you least want to live with always lives.” His definition applies equally to the group that gathers each Thanksgiving and the group that congregates each Sunday morning. (p. 64-65, Church: Why Bother?)”