Quotes About Gathering

We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music.

It is, as some modern Christian thinkers have said, what makes the Church what it really is. For that short time, when we gather as God's guests at God's table, the Church becomes what it is meant to be – a community of strangers who have become guests together and are listening together to the invitation of God.

This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it.

Everyone loves brunch. OBVIOUSLY, but you super-love brunch. You are so big into brunch that your middle name should be "Brunch"...

The theory was that while in a Fallow state you were gathering and conserving strength, nourishing yourself through meditation, sending invisible rootlets out into the universe.

God had been intentional in each gathering. He used these encounters to uncover a deep need and satiate a deep hunger.

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like this?' My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, 'Here, kitty, kitty.'

All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.

Thanksgiving is the day you don't know if you're invited for dinner or an intervention either way is going to be an ambush.

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

Killashandra steeled herself for yet another protocologically correct reception.

Letters should be written to send news, to say send me news, to say meet me at the train station.

Had I ever been that powerful creature who so dazzled many that he could slaughter a gathering of mortals and no one would dare accuse save in whispers?

Assumptions block direct experience and prevent us from gathering information that could bring us comfort and relief, or information that, though saddening and painful, will allow us to make better decisions.

Yeah, I'm thinking it's a reunion or, since it is our classmates, a collection of idiots. Let's call it a meese. Like geese, only with morons. (Caleb)

One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place.

After a moment, the void gathered itself into a low-ceilinged, dim space with sconces in the walls, a stairwell to the left, and closet doors broken from their hinges.

The author describes a previous Bible study with a lot of turnover as "not so much together as in each other's midst.

But to ask a computing device to stop gathering information and to stop sharing it with other devices is like wishing away all the magic in your magic wand.

She could hear the voices and laughter coming from the yard, and she thought, really, this was the best part of any wedding, not the ceremony or the cake or the dancing but the downtime when they were all together without the lights shining on them.

just where they had left it at Christmas. They collected

with the group of Somali men who gathered

Reunión de pastores, decía el antiguo refrán español, oveja muerta.