Mount Gilead Community

Famous quotes containing the words mount, gilead and/or community:

    On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole
    There is a balm in Gilead to heal the sinsick soul.
    —African-American hymn-writer. “There Is a Balm in Gilead,” l. 1-2.

    He thought that, because the community represents millions of people, therefore it must be millions of times more important than the individual, forgetting that the community is an abstraction from the many, and is not the many themselves.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)