Community Faith Quotes

Our faith becomes stronger as we express it; a growing faith is a sharing faith

I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me.

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.

If we don't believe in Americans, who will? I do believe. I've seen it in the people of our very typical corner of the nation.

Because Judaism and Christianity are both covenantal religions, the relationship of the individual Jew or Christian to God is always within covenanted community.

As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.

I have always had faith in our community because I've seen us come together in so many ways before, even during the most difficult of times.

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

Without a vision our community will perish without Christ, but without a vision the church will perish as well.

I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me.

Those who embrace belief in Christ Jesus are bound together in Him, in a real yet incomplete way, in his Body, the Church. Faith is never a solitary activity, nor can it be simply private. Faith in Christ always draws us into a community and has a public dimension.

We have ... to convince the people of America's cities that government is on their side.