Quotes About Fellowship

Some of you are sitting at home saying, 'I don't need a church to love God,' and I am here telling you that you are so wrong.

I love being part of a team, any team. Not just playing, but the camaraderie, the whole thing. It's just what I get off on.

Christians in community must again show the world, not merely family values, but the bond of the love of Christ.

Jesus went without comfort so that you might have it. He postponed joy so that you might share in it. He willingly chose isolation so that you might never be alone in your hurt and sorrow. He had no real fellowship so that fellowship might be yours, this moment. This alone is enough cause for great gratitude!

My greatest desire is my country's happiness, a happiness I would like to be owed to the mother country and the efforts of my fellow citizens, united with one another with eternal ties of common vigilance and common interests.

The idea of salvation cannot be reduced to a personal relationship with Jesus. God's plan is much more encompassing. God intends for salvation to be a community-creating event.

Are you telling me that I have to spend the last hour of my life surrounded by a bunch of fucking Hobbits, Z?

My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more real and meaningful relationship. The spicy teas and tasty delicacies I prepare from wild ingredients are the bread and wine in which I have communion and fellowship with nature, and with the Author of that nature.

Whether we like it or not, the moment we confess Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, that is, from the time we become a Christian, we are at the same time a member of the Christian church

Scripture knows nothing of the solitary Christian. People of faith are always members of a community. Creation itself was not complete until there was community, Adam needing Eve before humanity was whole. God never works with individuals in isolation, but always with people in community.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, one of our great modern Isaian prophets who had extensive experience with violence in two world wars, wrote, "The greatest temptation of our time is impatience, in its full original meaning: refusal to wait, undergo, suffer. We seem unwilling to pay the price of living with our fellows in creative and profound relationships."*3

Reading creates a sense of human fellowship. It is never (or rarely) a public activity, but in putting us in direct contact with other minds and sensibilities, it is a form of solitude which banishes loneliness. It can offer the consolation of knowing we are not alone, in our pleasures or in our suffering. It is in situations of deprivation that the value of reading – the deep need for books – becomes more vividly apparent.

Religions prosper in large part because of the communities that they create.

I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.

You can never really replicate the dressing-room environment and building something as a group of players.

The dressing-room environment is very difficult to replicate, camaraderie is very important.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

I enjoy winning, but more importantly, I enjoy the people I'm around.

If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is impossible that one part should be independent of all the rest.

There's a word to describe a group of people who feel that way: they are a team.

Would to God that Christian men and women would ponder it well and think it out for themselves, and when they go into the worst parts of our great cities and their hearts almost break with the misery there, then let them remember how that misery is but a faint picture of the endless, hopeless, misery, to which the vast majority of their fellow-men are doomed.

All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.

When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.