Quotes About Gathering

As they gathered about the table, Mrs. March said, with a particularly happy face, I've got a treat for you after supper.

At four o'clock a lull took place, and baskets remained empty, while the apple pickers rested and compared rents and bruises. Then Jo and Meg, with a detachment of the bigger boys, set forth the supper on the grass, for an out-of-door tea was always the crowning joy of the day.

I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and politics and music and film, and developing, too, a certain skill in manipulating and arranging these pitiful shards so that they glittered and caught the light. Fool's gold, or priceless nuggets mined from my singular childhood's rich bohemian seam? I leave it to others to decide.

His eyes are a hazy swirl ofgray, like a thick mass of clouds gathering before an impending storm

this is a very fair gathering--circumspect, calm, accustomed to disturbance, acquainted with blows! Peste! I have been lucky.

every May there would be a town gathering to remember this day so that no one would forget how easily everyday life could be suddenly disrupted, for disaster was always a moment away, in the wind, in a red rain, in the illness that had spread through the village on a beautiful spring day.

A mob of self-important ducks had already gathered,

The best time to see her is when the place is almost full.

Emergency meeting! Everyone to the conference room now!

Una iglesia orgánica no depende de un edificio. Depende de personas.

Wolfgang Simson, Houses that Change the World; The Return of House Churches

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

To have all my dear ones together under one roof - that is all I ask of life.

It had been, she felt, a dumb event preceded by excellent invitations.

The health, long-term mission, and viability of the church are not going to be determined by those who gather on Sunday morning. The future of the church will be determined by the depth of its disciples.

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

This I do, being mad: Gather baubles about me, Sit in a circle of toys, and all the time Death beating the door in.

And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

The faces of them all gather blackness.

To your tents, O Israel.

The Campbells are comin', oho, oho.

Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

they settled themselves on deeply uncomfortable chairs in the meeting room.

It is a mark of a narcissistic age that some Christians have come to interpret these words as suggesting that we make Jesus present by means of our community, when exactly the reverse is the case. The only reason why Christians gather is that Jesus has already united us. We gather not in our names but in His name. It is He who has called us out of the darkness of egoism into His wonderful light.