Quotes About Gathering

Every last Featherington, current and former, was there, along with assorted spouses and even a cat.

Every night with good friends is a special occasion.

Solitude and boredom. It's what happens to something that's felt itself gathered together too long, too...exclusively. The vacuum that occurs at its frontiers--a kind of numbness which is generated on its torpid surface as if it had lost the sense of touch--lost contact.

I'm always shocked when I get an invitation. People are always shocked when they see me at a party.

If I could throw a dinner party for anyone, I'd invite Lena Dunham, Dave Chappelle, and Gena Rowlands.

I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited.

I like inviting people over in the evening, because I don't like moving anywhere.

If Jesus were living in our culture, he would probably hang out in coffeehouses.

The Queen was coming to Henry's

Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.

Liturgy is not only the assembly's public work or service to God (worship proper); it is also God's public work or service to the assembly.

In the minds of the early Christians, the people—not the architecture—constituted a sacred space.

From the human perspective, the purpose of the church meeting is mutual edification. But from God's perspective, the purpose of the gathering is to express His glorious Son and make Him visible. (The church is the body, and Christ is the Head. The purpose of one's body is to express the life that's within it.)

The social location of the church meeting expresses and influences the character of the church.221

According to the first-century use of the word, an ekklesia is a local gathering of Christians who live as a shared-life community and who gather regularly under the Headship of Jesus Christ.

Half happy. We wander among Mayflowers, among the lonely paths in the woods. We hover over gatherings of people, over the scene of accidents, gardens, festivals. We cower in chimneys of dwelling places and behind the bed curtains. Give me your hand. We don't associate with each other, but we see and hear everything that is going on in the world. We know that everything is stupidity, everything that men do and contend for, and we laugh at it.

The Messiah (Jesus) says: "God shows the greatest hatred for a scholar who loves to be remembered when being abroad, who is given much room in gatherings, who is (often) invited for dinner, and who has bags of provisions poured out for him. In truth, I say to you, Those have taken their wages in this world, and God will double their punishment on the Day of Resurrection.' " Strange as this may seem at - first glance, the passage may reflect Mark 12:38 f. (Luke 20:46)

It sometimes happens at the end of a dinner, when jokes and walnuts are cracked together, that the paternity of some trite quotation is put in question, and at once the wit of the whole company is set wool-gathering.

We brought company, I told her. All of it.

He was gathering everything up, everything he should tell her.

Batley and Spen is a gathering of typically independent, no-nonsense and proud Yorkshire towns and villages.

New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.

My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.

My family often travels to New York City during the holidays, and that's always a good time.