Authentic Community Quotes

#1. Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.

Rob Bell

#2. One trend I see is the rejection of growth for self-discovery and the pursuit of authentic community. So we keep whittling our spiritual community to a smaller and smaller and more exclusive inner circle. The problem is if the diagnoses are wrong, so will be the cure.

Erwin McManus

#3. I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions.

John Wesley

#4. In a world where superficial relationships are the norm, real and authentic community is refreshing.

David Bouchard

#5. Perhaps true hangs increased the space in one's heart, creating openness that allowed for authentic community.

Wm. Paul Young

#6. Authentic community is the sweet aroma of the gifts offered to our Lord on the day of His birth.

Alan De Jager

#7. If Kona were to get a new logo, it would have to be a original character, not some well know one.

Jimmy Piersall

#8. Do you know what the essential problem of the piano is?" he asked. He held me so his head was a few inches from my own. His eyes darted back and forth. "It is impossible to play continuously on a piano string like a violin. The problem is to sustain a note.

Frederick Weisel

#9. If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract a price from others. We will make promises we cannot keep, build houses from flimsy stuff, conjure dreams that devolve into nightmares, and other people will suffer - if we are unfaithful to true self.

Parker J. Palmer

#10. Human beings long for connection, and our sense of usefulness derives from the feeling of connectedness. When we are connected - to our own purpose, to the community around us, and to our spiritual wisdom - we are able to live and act with authentic effectiveness.

Michael Meade

#11. Greet what arrives, escort what leaves and rush upon loss of contact

Yip Man

#12. My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.

Clarence Darrow

#13. If you are feeling constrained by a group that you belong to, ask yourself,
"How can I participate in this community and still be who I am?

Gina Greenlee

#14. Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

Leon Krier

#15. An authentic response to who God is and what He's done ... What we do is useful to the extent that it provides an ability for our community to voice things back to God. If it's unsuccessful in that, then it's just self-indulgence.

Crowder

#16. When people got old, why did they always develop a passion for scrabbling in the earth? Were they trying to get used to it?

Sergei Lukyanenko

#17. Misery loves company. There's a lot to that.

Harvey Pekar

#18. We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged in national discussion - and so, we're clunky. We're all clunky. But it's better than not doing it.

Mona Simpson

#19. Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

Romola Garai

#20. I walk into so many places where Christians are gathered and I get all excited, only to find that the fellowship among these Believers is dead! There is no openness, no authenticity.

Alan De Jager

#21. They smoke cigarettes professionally. The smoke is inhaled very sharply and the teeth are bared.Then the head turns to give you a profile and the smoke is exhaled slowly and deliberately and the grey jet stream becomes a beautiful blue cloud of smoke.What are they trying to tell us?

Jeffrey Bernard

#22. I really admire Airbnb as a pioneer of the sharing economy and for building community. They've found an elegant way to help hosts make more money and for guests to have authentic experiences. It brings those people together in a unique way.

Logan Green

#23. God's people are the stage upon which His forgiveness becomes visible. They are never more authentic than when they ask for forgiveness and forgive others.

Matt Chandler

#24. We must imagine our lives well. We must engage our conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man.

Laura Kasischke

#25. Let your broken heart create an open heart

Rick Warren

#26. I am going to be blunt now, but I feel it is warranted: Christians who aren't willing to confess their faults to each other are either full of pride, or they have no clue of the power of prayer!

Alan De Jager

#27. Disclosing one's "deep, dark secrets" makes them no less deep or dark or secret than any other petty flaw.

Alan De Jager

#28. & I think I like him better with the fitted cap on He aint even gotta try to put the mack on

Nicki Minaj

#29. Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

Mary E. DeMuth