Philip Yancey Quotes

We live in community, and we're created in community. We're created out of the unity of two people, and then we're made into a family. It's just inherent in who we are.

My vision for a better Rhode Island starts with a simple idea - we are all in this together.

It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.

I think what's wonderful is that 'Community' has always had its voice, has always had it's vision, and that started from the very beginning.

Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.

The thing we need most is each other.

I know enough to know that no man is an island.

People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible.

Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion.

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

The idea of service leads to community.

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.

We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other.

What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them.

The joy of just being involved in something, of being part of a big process, just as a human being, it's nice to be part of people who are in the same enterprise, heading for the same goal, rather than, 'Oh this is all about me and my role. The story's about me.'

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Our nation must come together to unite.

We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.

I like the idea of everybody knowing each other; you know why you're doing things.