Quotes About Fellowship

Men work together," I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart.

Bistami watched his fellow scholars around the fire in the evenings, intent on a point of doctrine, or the questionable isnad of a hadith, and what that meant, arguing with exaggerated punctilio and little debater's jokes and flourishes, while a pot of thick hot coffee was poured with solemn attention into little glazed clay cups, all eyes gleaming with firelight and pleasure in the argument; and he thought, these are the Muslims who make Islam good.

When everyone was seated they took up the water pitchers and poured each other's water

The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.

Everyone is shy --- it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denying shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration come first.

Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.

Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation.

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz'd, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!

Saying of the ProphetTHE PEOPLEIt is the people who are God's family.(Muhammad the Prophet)

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

We are here to help one another along life's journey.

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

out of any world; each world is rimless. —Amy Leach, Things That Are She had always enjoyed waking people who were asleep; and indeed it is as great an alteration to the state of a fellow-creature that we can make short of killing them or giving birth to them. —Rebecca West, This Real Night

Members of a coalition spend more time together, share food, and help one another in times of trouble.

Getting my poems published was a great achievement, but it didn't pay the rent. The only time I made any money was when I won a CAPS fellowship from the New York State Council on the Arts in 1983. They gathered sixteen poets in a room and handed us each a check for $5,000. The room was filled with happiness so thick you could cut it. Eventually, I started looking around for another way to make a living.

Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

A shared life is a great life.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

No sólo la vida de la iglesia es un medio de santificación debido a que la Palabra de Dios es continuamente predicada y aplicada a la vida de los miembros, sino también porque la iglesia es un medio de rendición de cuentas y protección.

Instead of waiting for community, provide it, and you'll end up with it anyway.

However, if you're navigating the tension between your Bible and your life, or Jesus' ancient ideas and the modern wayward church, or God's kingdom on earth and reality, then welcome. Sometimes it's better to wade through murky waters with a fellow explorer than with an authority. Questions can still be investigated with another learner instead of with one who has only answers.

Let us be so taken up with the knowledge of God's goodness and the desire to fellowship with Him that our emotions are warmed and our outer man reflects great love. Although we must not seek emotional experiences for their own sake, we must not shun them merely because others misuse them or ignore God's instructions on worship.