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Quotes About Gathering

The church of Jesus Christ is not necessarily present when there is a correct administration of the sacrament and faithful preaching of the Word of God. The church of God is present where people gather together in the power of the resurrected life of Jesus Christ.
~ Dallas Willard
world never had such wealth been assembled in one place at one
~ Wilbur Smith
What drew me down there, I wonder, to the edge of the garden? I remember the summer light--the trees, the bushes,the grass luminously green, basted by the bland, benevolent late-afternoon sun. Was it the light? But there was the laughter, also, coming from where a group of people had gathered by the pond. Someone must have been horsing around making everyone else laugh. The light and laughter, then.
~ William Boyd
Sometimes I'd go to his house. If I had some cool cards in my pack of Iceberg Updates, we'd compare collections, maybe swap a few.
~ China Mieville
A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.
~ Chinua Achebe
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us on this grand and auspicious day.
~ Chris Grabenstein
His propitiating work is meant to gather people from the "whole world." "I have other sheep that are not of this fold!" (John 10:16)—all over the world.
~ Christian Focus Publications
Today the Church has 220 data-gathering teams in forty-five countries that are making digital copies of new records. They are also converting 2.4 million microfilm records into a digital format.
~ Christine Kenneally
It's that ambient dance pish that Parlabane always hears at trendy gatherings but which no bastard would ever choose to listen to for their own entertainment. The
~ Christopher Brookmyre
A famous university in theory might sound exciting, but in reality it's just a bunch of buildings, and often some droopy balloons hanging from an iron banister, and a loose gathering of people that might be a poorly attended Falun Gong liberation protest, or some students playing Assassin.
~ Heidi Julavits
Zion is where the pure in heart are gathered; that gathering creates a Zion.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Bells rang, the stewards rushed forward, and—like rye shaken together in a shovel—the guests who had been scattered about in different rooms came together and crowded in the large drawing-room by the door of the ballroom.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Come gather the pieces all scattered and lost The lie in what's holy, the light in what's not The story's been written the letter's been sealed You gave me a lily but now it's a field
~ Leonard Cohen
Duke Ercole's condition deteriorated and he lay listening to the gentle music on his favorite clavichord. Sinking slowly, with the family gathered about his bed, Ercole beat time to the music with his hand.
~ Leonie Frieda
The morning of the funeral an honor guard from Albuquerque fired the salute; two big flags covered the coffins completely, and it looked as if the people from the village had gathered only to bury the flags.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.
~ Kate Christensen
Ferguson shows the power of social media. This could have not been a story. Or it could have just been a local story. Or it could have been something that we saw only from a distance, through the usual filters. Instead, it gathered steam.
~ Alexandra Petri
For me myself, I feel it's always interesting gathering data. I have my team who do that. I think they feed me through specific things that I might find valuable.
~ Kevin Anderson
My parents used to play cards on Saturday... all the friends would come across. So it was like one massive Parsee gathering... and the value system kind of creeps in.
~ Ronnie Screwvala
The highlight is on Saturday, when the thousands gather to watch a bonfire consume the Burning Man, a ten-story-high wooden effigy packed with gasoline.
~ Jann S. Wenner
Except, perhaps, in Iran itself. A new round of musicians had taken up their instruments, and the beat was quickening, growing louder and wilder by the minute. Men and women had gathered to dance again and were stamping like matadors, or circling one another with gazes interlocked. I moved closer, to a marble-topped bar, where the exhausted musicians had swapped their instruments for tumblers of vodka.
~ Unknown
Tea?" said Gordon with masterful good timing. "I've made a cake, too." "Thank you.
~ Jasper Fforde
She didn't think anything could ever spoil her happiness as she filled her gathering basket with nuts.
~ Jean M. Auel
She watched through a slight mist a party of people who had just come into the restaurant, the movements of arms taking off overcoats, of legs in light-coloured stockings and fee in low-heeled shoes walking over the wooden floor to hide themselves under the tablecloths.
~ Jean Rhys